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Kate Brown

Kate Brown is Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including A Manual for Survival, an NBCC Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Vermont.

Kate Brown

Kate Brown is Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including A Manual for Survival, an NBCC Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 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