Donovan Webster

Biography

Donovan Webster is the author of several books, including Aftermath: The Remnants of War and Meeting the Family: One Man’s Journey Through His Human Ancestry. A former senior editor for Outside, he writes for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine. He has served as deputy editor and editor-at-large of VQR.

See Work

CRITICISM / Winter 2013

Budd Schulberg: An Appreciation

By Donovan Webster

As a young man, just out of school, he was embracing The Red and the Black as well as Man’s Fate and many other Communist-inflected books, and he hoped to use film-making to make the world a more fair and equitable place. At the time, in...
EDITOR'S DESK / Summer 2012

Burma Exhales

By Donovan Webster

Burma ranks among the most beguiling and un-homogenized places on Earth. The people are roughly 100 tribes encircled by a national boundary put into place by the colonial British.
ESSAYS / Summer 2012

The Lady & The Generals

By Donovan Webster

Aung San Suu Kyi and the complicated history of Burma
REPORTING / Summer 2011

Cod World

By Donovan Webster ,  Photography by Jon Golden

“Did you see the northern lights last night?” Captain Geiry asks. He smiles and tosses up his right hand, which is gloved by red insulated rubber, then shakes his head. “They were … amazing.”

Winter 2011

In the Footsteps of Ghosts

By Donovan Webster ,  Photography by Kevin German