Donovan James Webster (January 13, 1959 – July 4, 2018)[1] was an American journalist, author, film-maker, and humanitarian.
A former senior editor for Outside magazine, his work appeared in The New Yorker,[2] National Geographic,[3] Smithsonian,[4] Vanity Fair,[5] Men's Health, Garden & Gun,[6] and The New York Times Magazine,[7] among other publications. He was also an advisory board member of the National Geographic Society, the interim editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and a lecturer in the Department of Honors Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He lived outside Charlottesville, Virginia.