Andrea Pitzer is the author of Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, which narrates the three Arctic voyages of Dutch navigator William Barents, and One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, which was named a best history book of 2017 by Smithsonian Magazine. She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Outside, GQ, Slate, and elsewhere. Her reporting has taken her to four continents and on multiple expeditions to the Norwegian and Russian Arctic.