Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner is a dynamic popular science writer and journalist known for making cutting-edge science understandable. His books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. While working on His Brother’s Keeper, he was writer-in-residence at The Rockefeller University. He currently teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he is the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Scientific American. He is the author of Long for This World; His Brother’s Keeper; Time, Love, Memory; The Beak of the Finch; The Next One Hundred Years; and Planet Earth.