Hugh Raffles

Hugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia , which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Orion , and The New York Times , and he is the recipient of the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of...See more

Hugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia , which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Orion , and The New York Times , and he is the recipient of the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School. See less