bozeman, montana, united states
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Claim your profileI am the author of four books of fiction and seven nonfiction titles, including The Song of the Dodo, which won several national and international awards. In the past thirty years I have also published a few hundred pieces of short nonfiction--essays, columns, articles, reviews--in magazines such as Esquire, Outside, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Harper's. I have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and am a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. My current book project involves zoonotic diseases, the infections that leap into humans from other species; mainly that means scary new viruses, as well as a few scary old ones. I am a Contributing Writer for National Geographic Magazine, in whose service I travel often, usually to jungles, deserts, and swamps. Home is Bozeman, Montana.Specialties: science writing, non-fiction writing






Literature at University Of OxfordGraduated: 1973