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David Quammen
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
David Quammen
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Awards
Winner — National Association of Science Writers Award, 2013
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2013
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2012
Books by David Quammen
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen
E Book, 2013
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all”...Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
David Quammen
E Book, 2015
In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
David Quammen
E Book, 2014
“A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.” —Walter Isaacson