About: Johnson is the best-selling author of five books. His most recent work The Ghost Map tells the story of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London. Johnson is a contributing editor to Wired magazine and is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at the New York University Department of Journalism. Johnson's latest project outside.in, is a website that collectively builds online conversation about geographic locations neighborhood by neighborhood.

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