Calonius, Erik

Erik Calonius, photojournalist and contributing photographer to the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project in the early 1970s.

Erik Calonius earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He was a reporter, editor, and London-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and served as an editor and writer for Fortune magazine where he was nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is also the former Miami Bureau Chief for Newsweek. He is the author of The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set its Sails (2006) and Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us (2011). He has collaborated on more than a dozen nonfiction books, including New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of 2008 Predictably Irrational with MIT economist Dan Ariely. Erik Calonius lives in Charleston, South Carolina.