Amanda M. Fairbanks
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Amanda M. Fairbanks

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Amanda M. Fairbanks is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind.

Fairbanks writes about the East End of Long Island for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times, where she formerly worked in the editorial department. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Columbia Journalism Review, Air Mail, Oprah Daily, and the East Hampton Star.

A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach For America corps member, she holds two master's degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A California native, she lives with her family in Sag Harbor, New York.

Her second book, Tick Boom: A Biography of Lyme Disease, the Growing Epidemic Lurking in Plain Sight will be published in April 2027.
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