Jonathan Weiner
Jonathan Weiner (born 1953, in New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.
His latest book is "Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality" (Ecco Press, July 2010) a look at the scientific search for the Fountain of Youth.
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book The Beak of the Finch. In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book Time, Love, Memory about Seymour Benzer.
Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976.
Weiner is the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches writing about science and medicine. He has taught at Princeton University, Arizona State University and Rockefeller University.
He lives in New York with his wife, author Deborah Heiligman, and their two sons, Aaron and Benjamin.
Selected bibliography
- Planet Earth - the companion book to the PBS series (1986)
- The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth (1990)
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)
- Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999)
- His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine (2004)
- Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality (2010)
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