Amanda Ripley

Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, Washington Post contributor, and co-founder of consultancy firm, Good Conflict. Her books include The Smartest Kids in the World, High Conflict, and The Unthinkable.

A person with short hair stands outside near a chain-link fence, holding green leaves with the sun casting a soft light.

A black-and-white image of a ship in water on the left pairs with a red-tinted photo of a large explosion on the right, capturing the essence of naval catastrophe through expert storytelling.

The Past

The groundbreaking optimism of catastrophe expert Samuel Henry Prince

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.