S.J. Parris
S.J. Parris writes about her inspiration for Heresy, which masterfully blends true events with fiction into a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.
Adam Haslett
A conversation with Adam Haslett, author of Union Atlantic, a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of
Medicine. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns,
Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of
Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Dr. Diamond is also the author of two other trade books: The Third
Chimpanzee, which won The Los Angeles Times Book award for the best
science book of 1992 and Britain's 1992 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize; and Why
is Sex Fun? (ScienceMasters Series).
Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
("Genius Award"); research prizes of the American Physiological
Society, National Geographic Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and
many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been
elected a member of all three of the leading national scientific/academic
honorary societies (National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, American Philosophical Society).
His field experience includes 17 expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring
islands, to study ecology and evolution of birds; rediscovery of New Guinea's
long-lost goldenfronted bowerbird; other field projects in North America, South
America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As a conservationist he devised a
comprehensive plan, almost all of which was subsequently implemented, for
Indonesian New Guinea's national park system; numerous field projects for the
Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund; founding member of the board of
the Society of Conservation Biology; member of the Board of Directors of World
Wildlife Fund/USA.
This biography was last updated on 12/21/2005.
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