Carl Zimmer is, in the words of New York, “the country’s most respected science journalist.” He has twice won the National Academies Communication Award and is a three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award. In addition, he was awarded the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, and the National Association of Biology Teachers gave him their Distinguished Service Award. Zimmer is a columnist for The New York Times and writes regularly for magazines such as National Geographic and The Atlantic. He is also the author of fourteen widely praised books.
His latest book, Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means Be Alive, has earned wide acclaim. In a cover review for the New York Times Book Review, Siddhartha Mukherjee praised Zimmer’s “elegant, deeply researched book,” writing that “this book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science.”
Zimmer’s 2018 book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, won the Communications Award from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. The Guardian named it the best science book of 2018, and the New York Times Book Review named it a notable book of the year.
From 1994 to 1998 Carl Zimmer was a senior editor at Discover before turning to writing full-time. His work has appeared in The Best American Science series as well as The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. Along with the National Academies of Science prize, he has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a professor adjunct in the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, where he teaches science writing.
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