Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. His book The Last Season won the National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the top ten “. . . greatest adventure biographies ever written.”

Blehm is known for his deeply reported, immersive narratives that bring readers inside hard-to-access worlds—whether embedded with elite military units, tracking a missing wilderness ranger in the High Sierra, or following individuals driven to the outer edges of risk, endurance, and belief. His work is defined by rare access, meticulous reporting, and a commitment to telling the full human story behind extraordinary lives.

His book Fearless tells the heartrending and inspiring story of Navy SEAL Adam Brown, while Legend chronicles the heroism of Green Beret Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez during the Vietnam War. In The Darkest White, Blehm returned to his mountain roots to tell the gripping story of snowboarding pioneer Craig Kelly and his death in the Durrand Glacier avalanche. In a rave review for the New York Times Book Review, Simon Winchester said, “ . . . this is probably the most unremittingly exciting book of nonfiction I have come across in years.”

With Haunted by Heroes, Blehm returns to the story that began with Fearless, turning his focus to the men who helped bring Adam Brown’s life to light: elite members of SEAL Team 6 who shared their stories—not for recognition but to honor a fallen brother—and who were later killed in one of the deadliest single-day losses of the war in Afghanistan. The book reflects Blehm’s enduring commitment to telling the stories behind the story—and to honoring those who lived them.

Blehm lives in north San Diego County with his wife and their three children.