Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner ( born 1953 in New York City ) is an American non-fiction author. For his book The beak of the finch, or short breath of Evolution ( Original Title: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time ), he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize.

Weiner is a graduate of Harvard University and author of many other science books, for example, a biography of Seymour Benzer. He teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, which awards the Pulitzer Prize. He currently lives with his wife Deborah Heiligman, a children's book author, in New York.

Works

  • Planet Earth - fate and future of the earth. Earthscan, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-426-26301-7.
  • The next hundred years - How the greenhouse effect will change our lives. In 1990.
  • The beak of the finch, or short breath of evolution. Earthscan, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-426-26536-9.
  • Time, love, memory. In the search for the origins of behavior. Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-697-9.
  • His brother's keeper. Siedler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88680-749-5.
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