Alexander Shoumatoff is an American writer and journalist known primarily for his books and magazine articles about environmental issues and world affairs. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1978 to 1987, a founding contributing editor of Outside and Condé Nast Traveler, and was the senior-most contributing editor to Vanity Fair from 1986 to 2015. Shoumatoff was called "the farthest flung of the far flung writers" by The New Yorker and "one of our greatest storytellers" by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
