The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

"The Best American Science and Nature Writing" is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and is part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Articles are chosen using the same procedure with other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chooses about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix.

Burkhard Bilger was the series editor for 2000 and 2001. Tim Folger has been the series editor since 2002.

Guest editors

* 2000: David Quammen
* 2001: Edward O. Wilson
* 2002: Natalie Angier
* 2003: Richard Dawkins
* 2004: Steven Pinker
* 2005: Jonathan Weiner
* 2006: Brian Greene
* 2007: Richard Preston
* 2008: Jerome Groopman

ee also

*The Best American Science Writing

External links

* [http://bachlab.balbach.net/basnw.html Online Index to "The Best American Science and Nature Writing" Series]


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