David Quammen

About

I am the author of four books of fiction and seven nonfiction titles, including The Song of the Dodo, which won several national and international awards. In the past thirty years I have also published a few hundred pieces of short nonfiction--essays, columns, articles, reviews--in magazines such as Esquire, Outside, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Harper's. I have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and am a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. My current book project involves zoonotic diseases, the infections that leap into humans from other species; mainly that means scary new viruses, as well as a few scary old ones. I am a Contributing Writer for National Geographic Magazine, in whose service I travel often, usually to jungles, deserts, and swamps. Home is Bozeman, Montana.Specialties: science writing, non-fiction writing