Ted Botha is a best-selling author and journalist who has written for a wide array of newspapers and magazines across the world, including The New York Times, Esquire, Condé Nast Traveler, Outside, The Sunday Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. He has also worked as an editor for the Reuters news agency in New York.

His books have been reviewed in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Entertainment Weekly, and have been described as “enthralling,” “electrifying,” and “highly readable.” Besides narrative non-fiction, where he dives into forgotten stories from history, and memoir, he has written true crime and travelogues about far-flung corners of the world. 

So, in the pages of his books and articles you are as likely to read about a serial killer from 1930 as a Hollywood-era mogul you’d never heard of and the Babylon he created in Africa 1919; or how a group of modern-day conservationists are reviving hundreds of islands in the Seychelles and bringing back birds and animals that were once wiped out; or about the denizens of New York who troll the streets by night in search of treasure in other people’s garbage; or the chaotic inner life of a corrupt, drug-infested residential building in Manhattan . 

His book “The Girl with the Crooked Nose,” the bizarre true story of a unique forensic artist in Philadelphia, has been considered by the producers of the blockbuster The Perfect Storm as well as for a streaming series, so watch this space for when it finally comes out ... 

He is passionate about traveling, especially by train – the more out-of-the-way, the better – as well as good coffee, swimming in oceans, animals, conservation, and movies, old and new. His next book is about two chaotic and unlikely American expeditions through Africa in 1919 that led to tragedy, mutiny, triumph … and a movie.