SAM QUINONES is a journalist, storyteller, former Los Angeles Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic and its follow-up The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. The Virgin of the American Dream is his first book of photojournalism.