Luke Dittrich

Luke Dittrich is a contributing editor at Esquire, where he writes on subjects ranging from lost atomic bombs to teenage hitmen.

His forthcoming book for Random House, The Brain That Changed Everything, is about Henry Molaison, who in 1958 underwent an experimental operation at the hands of Dittrich's grandfather. The operation obliterated Molaison's ability to create new memories, and Molaison went on to become the most important human test subject in the history of science, revolutionizing our understanding of how memory works. An Esquire article Dittrich wrote about Molaison is featured in the 2011 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology.