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
Books by Kate Brown
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Hardcover, 2019
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in...
Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster
Paperback, 2020
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
"A magisterial blend of historical research, investigative journalism, and poetic reportage…[A]n awe-inspiring journey." —...