Chris McDougall

Christopher McDougall is the author of Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen and Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance, both published by Profile Books. He began his career as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, covering wars in Rwanda and Angola. He now lives and writes (and runs, swims, climbs, and bear-crawls) among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania. @McDougallChris