Jonathan Weiner
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Jonathan Weiner (born 1953 in New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.
His latest book is "Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality" (Ecco Press, July 2010) a look at the scientific search for the Fountain of Youth.
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book The Beak of the Finch.[1][2] In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book Time, Love, Memory about Seymour Benzer.
Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976.[3]
Weiner is the Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches writing about science and medicine. He has taught at Princeton University, Arizona State University and Rockefeller University.
Weiner is married to the children's writer Deborah Heiligman, whose focus is also nonfiction.[3] They live in New York City with their two sons, Aaron and Benjamin.
Deborah Heiligman's book about Emma Darwin and her relationship with Charles, Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith (Henry Holt, January 2009)—"for Middle Readers and Young Adults"—won the inaugural YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults from the American young-adult librarians, as the year's best nonfiction book. It was the runner-up among all young-adult books based on literary merit (Printz Award), as well as for the National Book Award.
Selected works
- Planet Earth (1986), the companion book to the 1986 PBS series of the same name.
- The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth (1990)
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)
- Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999)
- His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine (2004)
- Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality (2010)
References
- ↑ "Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner presents his new book in Sofia", Sofia Echo, June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2013
- ↑ Lonsdale, Carol J. & Smith, Harding E. (1994) "15th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes WINNER: JONATHAN WEINER `THE BEAK OF THE FINCH' The Beak That Brings Life", Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1994, p. 7G
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Jonathan Weiner Weds Deborah A. Heiligman", The New York Times, May 30, 1982. Retrieved November 24, 2013
External links
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- Long for this World
- "About Me" at Deborah Heiligman: Author, the official website of Weiner's wife
- Deborah Heiligman at Library of Congress Authorities, with 33 catalog records
- Jonathan Weiner at Library of Congress Authorities, with 9 catalog records
- Official website missing URL
- 1953 births
- Living people
- Arizona State University faculty
- American science writers
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners
- Columbia University faculty
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty
- Harvard University alumni
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Date of birth missing (living people)
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- 20th-century American writers
- 21st-century American writers
