Dan Fagin
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Fagin at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | February 1, 1963 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Occupation | Environmental journalist, New York University journalism professor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2014) |
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Dan Fagin is an American journalist who specializes in environmental health issues. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.[1][2] Toms River also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the National Academies Communication Award, among other literary prizes.[3][4]
Early life
Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey.[5] Fagin graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper).
Career
For fourteen years, Fagin was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Fagin is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2003, his stories about cancer epidemiology won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[6] and also won the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers.[7]
Since 2005, Fagin has been an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute[8] at New York University and the director of the NYU Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.[9] His book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation was published March 19, 2013. In a review, Abigail Zuger in the New York Times called it "a new classic of science reporting."[10] He is also the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of the book Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health (1997). Fagin is currently working on a book about monarch butterflies and the future of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
Personal life
He is married to Alison Frankel, a senior legal writer at Reuters; they have two children and live in Sea Cliff, NY.[5]
References
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External links
- Dan Fagin, official website
- New York Times op-ed by Fagin about parallels between chemical industry practices in Basel (starting in the 1860s), Cincinnati, Toms River and now China.
- New York Times op-ed by Fagin about a trip to Basel and outsourcing of toxic manufacturing practices.
- Scientific American story by Fagin about molecular epidemiology research in China.
- NPR interview with Fagin and other journalists about the state of environmental reporting.
- Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University
- Appearances on C-SPAN
