Jonathan Weiner
<p>Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country: his books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His writing has appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>Slate</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, <em>Scientific American</em>, <em>Smithsonian</em>, and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at <em>The Sciences</em>. His books include <em>The Beak of the Finch</em>; <em>Time, Love, Memory</em>; and <em>His Brother's Keeper</em>. He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.</p>