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Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including AnthillLetters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including AnthillLetters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Awards

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2008

Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2013

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2014

Books by Edward O. Wilson

  • The Meaning of Human Existence

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2014

    Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.
  • Letters to a Young Scientist

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2013

    Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation.
  • Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2016

    “The world’s greatest naturalist” (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere.
  • The Origins of Creativity

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2017

    “Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—Economist
  • Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2019

    “The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”—Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book Review
  • Tales from the Ant World

    Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2020

    “In Mr. Wilson ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.” —Economist
  • From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books

    Charles Darwin, Edward O. Wilson

    Slipcased Edition, Hardback, 2005

    Hailed as "superior" by Nature, this landmark volume is available in a collectible, boxed edition.
  • The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

    Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

    Hardback, 2009

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume.
  • The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

    Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

    Paperback, 2010

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism.
  • The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

    Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

    E Book, 2010

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism.