Jonathan Weiner

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 The New Yorker , Slate , Time , The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , The New Republic , Scientific American , Smithsonian , and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at The Sciences . He is the author of The Beak of the Finch...See more

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 The New Yorker , Slate , Time , The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , The New Republic , Scientific American , Smithsonian , and many other newspapers and magazines, and he is a former editor at The Sciences . He is the author of The Beak of the Finch ; Long for This World ; His Brother's Keeper ; The Next One Hundred Years ; and Planet Earth . He lives in New York, where he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. See less