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Jonathan Weiner

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Jonathan Weiner is one of the most distinguished popular-science writers in the country. His books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former editor at The Sciences and a writer for The New Yorker, he is the author of The Beak of the Finch, Time, Love, Memory, His Brother's Keeper among many others.

He currently lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Heiligman who is the children's book author, and their two sons. There he teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.


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Average rating: 4.01 · 2,298 ratings · 369 reviews · 13 distinct works
The Beak of the Finch: A St...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,613 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 216 ratings — 6 editions
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Long for This World: The St...
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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His Brother's Keeper
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 88 ratings — 11 editions
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Next One Hundred Years
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions
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Planet Earth
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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Tranquil Aftermath
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”
― Jonathan Weiner, Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
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