Jonathan Weiner
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Jonathan Weiner | |
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| Born | November 26, 1953 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
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Jonathan Weiner (born November 26, 1953) is an American writer of non-fiction books based on his biological observations, focusing particularly on 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
Biography
Weiner was born November 26, 1953, to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Ponnie (née Mensch) and Jerome Harris Weiner, an engineer and mathematician.[3][4] In 1976, he graduated from Harvard University.[4]
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.
Personal life
In 1982, he married Deborah Heiligman in a Jewish ceremony in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[4] Heligman is a children's writer whose focus is also nonfiction.[4] They live in New York City with their two sons, Aaron and Benjamin.
Deborah Heiligman's book about
Selected works
- Planet Earth (1986), the companion book to the 1986 of the same name.
- The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth (1990) OCLC 23278537
- OCLC 919191999
- Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999); 2014 ebook
- His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine (2004)
- Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality (2010) OCLC 704039876
References
- 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
- ISBN 9781573561112.
- ^ a b c d "Jonathan Weiner Weds Deborah A. Heiligman", The New York Times, May 30, 1982. Retrieved November 24, 2013
External links
- Official website
- Long for this World
- "About Me" at Deborah Heiligman: Author, the official website of Weiner's wife
- Deborah Heiligman at Library of Congress, with 33 library catalog records
- Jonathan Weiner at Library of Congress, with 9 library catalog records
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