How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflight (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House), Julian Guthrie Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Random House), Luke DittrichĬoyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Basic Books/Perseus Book Group), Dan Flores James Watson’s The Double Helix (1969), Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell (1978), and Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979). Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. The award is also supported by James and Cathy Stone. The inaugural award was conferred in 2011.Įxamples of published works that exemplify the quality of writing the award is designed to acknowledge include Rachel Carlson’s Silent Spring (1962), Dr. Wilson, activist and actor Harrison Ford, and the E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award was founded by scientist and author Dr. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, and lives with her husband and two children in Klamath Falls, Oregon. In 2016, she gave at TED talk about seeing the hidden nature that surrounds us and won a National Association of Science Writer’s “Science in Society” award for a commentary in Orion about our responsibility to save species-even at the cost of wildness.
In 2011, she published her first book, Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. She received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 2010, and since 2013 has been an adjunct professor in the science journalism program at New York University.Įmma Marris has written for many magazines and newspapers, including National Geographic, Discover, the New York Times, Nature, and Slate. Robin Marantz Henig is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who has written nine books, including Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution and The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel. Nutt has taught at Columbia and Princeton Universities and was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard in 2005-2006. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in 2011. She is working on a new book about how indoor spaces shape our health, behavior, and well-being.Īmy Ellis Nutt is a science writer on the national team of The Washington Post and the author of three books, including two New York Times’ bestsellers, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family and The Teenage Brain with Frances Jensen. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Nature, Slate, and elsewhere. Her most recent book, Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts, won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books and was longlisted for the 2014 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Emily Anthes is a science journalist and author.
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