Daniel Stone

Daniel Stone is a national bestselling writer on adventure, history, and science. He is a former senior editor for National Geographic and a former White House correspondent for Newsweek. His first book, THE FOOD EXPLORER, was a national bestseller and is currently in development for a TV series. SINKABLE, released in 2022, is about shipwrecks and the deep sea. AMERICAN POISON (2025) tells the story of the most destructive invention in human history and the inspiring story of Alice Hamilton, the woman who tried to stop it. He teaches environmental science, history, and storytelling at Johns Hopkins University. He is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Fellow with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two sons.