Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976.

He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book "The Beak of the Finch". In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book "Time, Love, Memory" about Seymour Benzer.

Weiner has taught at Arizona State University and Rockefeller University, and currently teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

elected Bibliography

*"Planet Earth" - the companion book to the PBS series (1986)
*"The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth" (1990)
*"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" (1994)
*"Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior" (1999)
*"His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine" (2004)

External links

* [http://www.jonathanweiner.com/ Official website]