Steve
Hendricks
WRITER
I write nonfiction, sometimes articles, mostly books. Below is a little about my books. For more, see here.
Across Glacier
On Foot Through America’s
Most Glorious National Park
The Book Alliance
Forthcoming April 6, 2027
A rollicking traverse of Glacier National Park,
deliciously funny and stuffed with wonder.
“Steve Hendricks announces himself as the next bright voice in a merry-eyed, wild-haired, razor-tongued American literary tradition stretching from Mark Twain to Edward Abbey . . . These adventures in the land of glaciers and grizzlies will put a smile on your face and a glint of wonder in your eye.”
—Robert Moor
author of On Trails and In Trees
“I enjoyed the hell out of this bewitching book. It’s at once a hilarious odd-couple saga and a portrait of Glacier so thorough, it really should be packaged with bear spray and gorp.”
—Patrick Hutchison
author of CABIN
“Steve Hendricks is as adventurous on the page as he is on foot. In the tradition of Kevin Fedarko’s A Walk in the Park and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, he covers and impressive amount of ground, literally and metaphorically . . . Hendricks’s wild and winsome ode just may convince you that Glacier is the most captivating, and flat out the most gorgeous, of our national parks.”
—Hampton Sides
author of Blood and Thunder and The Wide Wide Sea
The Oldest Cure in the World
Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
Abrams Press, 2022
The fascinating history and counterintuitive science of how fasting, wisely done, makes us healthier.
“An illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history—and myriad health benefits—of fasting.”
—Wall Street Journal
“A remarkable blend of authoritative history, illuminating science, and endearing storytelling.”
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies
Hendricks’s “levelheaded, irreverent approach and sharp reporting set the book apart. The result is a winning mix.”
The Unquiet Grave
The FBI and the Struggle
for the Soul of Indian Country
Da Capo Press, 2006
The true saga of how the FBI sabotaged the Indian rights movement of the 1970s and how the battered movement consumed itself.
One of the “100 best books of the year.”
“Investigative journalism at its gutsiest, at its noblest . . . Must reading.”
—Studs Terkel
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Hope Dies Last
“An impressive and important book, thoroughly researched and very well written.”
—Peter Matthiessen
National Book Award–winning author of In The Spirit of Crazy Horse
A Kidnapping in Milan
The CIA on Trial
W. W. Norton & Co., 2010
The CIA’s brazen abduction of a radical imam on the streets of Milan and the struggle of an Italian magistrate to bring the American kidnappers to trial.
A “real-life thriller . . . skillfully crafted, highly disturbing.”
“One of those rarities: an important story, excellently told.”
—Jon Lee Anderson
New Yorker correspondent
A Cure for Long COVID?
2024
An extended essay, published as a free ebook, on the possibility of fasting to reverse long COVID and other post-viral syndromes.
Doctors at the world’s largest fasting clinic have reported in a peer-reviewed journal that when their patients with long COVID fasted, their symptoms reversed. I look at the science of how fasting reverses similar diseases and why it might help post-viral sufferers. I also relate my own harrowing struggle with viral fallout and the fast that, I believe, reversed my symptoms. Download the free ebook here.
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