Joshua Prager is an American journalist and author. His first book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World, is about a famous 1951 baseball playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. His second book, Half Life: Reflections from Jerusalem on a Broken Neck is about his recovery from a bus accident in Jerusalem. He has written for publications including Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years.