A World Made of Blood

About the Author

Sebastian Junger is the author of the bestsellers War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. With the late Tim Hetherington, he shot and directed Restrepo, which won the 2010 Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary. He went on to direct a movie about Hetherington, Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? which airs on HBO in 2013. He also started a medical training program for freelance war reporters called Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (www.risctraining.org) A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he has won a National Magazine Award and the SAIS-Novartis Prize.

Read more of Sebastian Junger’s stories at Byliner.com

^{Photograph by Tim Hetherington}