Bio
Author Bryan Christy is a Contributing Writer for National Geographic. His work has appeared in Playboy, Foreign Policy, and numerous law journals. In 2009, he was selected as a Centennial Speaker by the US Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and he is a 2011 Genesis Award winner. Christy is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University's FALCON Japanese Program, the University of Michigan Law School, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Tokyo University Law School. Before pursuing writing full-time, he worked as a lawyer specializing in international law, including in the Executive Office of the President. As a lawyer he advised on such topics as the sale of light-water nuclear reactors to North Korea, trade with Libya, and US-Japan supercomputer trade negotiations. While researching The Lizard King he was bitten between the eyes by a blood python, chased by a mother alligator, sprayed by a birdeating tarantula, and ejaculated on by a Bengal tiger...
