Courant biography of michael

Michael Kodas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist,reporter and author,  and the Senior Editor at Inside Climate News, America’s oldest and largest newsroom focused on the biggest crisis facing our planet.

He was the winner of the 2018 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction for his book, Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, which was also named one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2017 by Amazon.

He is also the author of the bestseller High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, which was named Best Non-Fiction in USA Book News’ National Best Books Awards of 2008 and was the subject of a question on the game show Jeopardy.

Michael’s photography was featured in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentaryThe Vietnam War and he has appeared on the HBO program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; in the American Experience documentary The Big Burn on PBS; in the Denver Post’s Emmy A