Augustine Sedgewick

Augustine Sedgewick is the author of Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Cherasco International Prize. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University, and his writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. His American Scholar essay “Thoreau’s Pencils”, exploring ties he discovered between Henry David Thoreau and slavery around the Gulf of Mexico, was honored by Best American Essays. Sedgewick lives in New York City with his son.