Carl Zimmer is the science columnist for the New York Times and the author of 15 books. His latest book is Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. His previous books include Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive and She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Both books were finalists the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She Has Her Mother’s Laugh also earned the National Academies Communication Award and the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers and was a finalist for the Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction. He has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his books.
