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Kate Brown

Kate Brown is an award-winning historian of environmental and nuclear history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her previous book, Plutopia, won seven academic prizes. She splits her time between Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kate Brown

Kate Brown is an award-winning historian of environmental and nuclear history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her previous book, Plutopia, won seven academic prizes. She splits her time between Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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