Jeff Goodell: Reynolds Center presenter

Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith, based on the terrifying hours nine Quecreek miners spent trapped underground; he appeared on Oprah to talk with the miners about their experience.

Goodell’s memoir, Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family, was a New York Times Notable Book. His book, Big Coal, is the basis for an upcoming feature documentary, “Dirty Business.” His most recent book is How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate.

• Follow Goodell on Twitter @jeffgoodell.