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Kate Brown

Kate Brown is a distinguished professor in the history of science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including Manual for Survival, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greensboro, Vermont.

Kate Brown

Kate Brown is a distinguished professor in the history of science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including Manual for Survival, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greensboro, Vermont.

Awards

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2019

Winner — Reginald Zelnik Book Prize, 2020

Winner — Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, 2020

Shortlisted — Ryszard Kapuscinski International Award for Literary Reporting, 2020

Books by Kate Brown