Richard Morgan is a writer in New York. His articles have run in The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Details, Wired, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Discover, Seed, Slate, Africana, New York, ESPN The Magazine, Out, Fortune, Forbes Traveler and more. He is also a senior editor at Topic magazine. Before this, he was a ranch hand in Colorado, an evangelist in China, a hitchhiker in Costa Rica and a track & field statistician in North Carolina. His writing assignments have sent him to the Turkish countryside, the Alaskan Arctic, and Staten Island. Pineapples are his weakness.