Annie Murphy Paul's most recent book is Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of our Lives. A magazine journalist and book author who writes about the biological and social sciences, she was born in Philadelphia, and graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former senior editor at Psychology Today magazine, she was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, Discover, Health, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. She is the author of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves. An article based on Origins was included in the Best American Science Writing 2009.
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. Carl's books have won a number of accolades, including "One of the Top 100 Books of 2004" by The New York Times Book Review. His articles have been published in the New York Times, as well as magazines including National Geographic, Time, Scientific American,Science, and Popular Science.
From 1994 to 1998 Carl was a senior editor at Discover, where he remains a contributing editor and writes a monthly column about the brain. He is now a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches writing about science and the environment. He is also the first Visiting Scholar at the Science, Health, and Environment Reporting Program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Carl also hosts "Meet the Scientist," a podcast from the American Society for Microbiology.
Carl's work has been anthologized in both Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing. He has won fellowships and a number of awards, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science Journalism Award twice, for his work for The New York Times and for his blog, The Loom. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named.
