Jonathon Weiner

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About Jonathan

Jonathan Weiner's books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and many other honors. While working on His Brother's Keeper, he was writer-in-residence at Rockefeller University. Now he teaches science writing at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Heiligman, the children's book author, and their two sons.

His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
CommentaryPulitzer Prize winner Weiner has crafted a superb book. It artfully blends biographical drama, narrative development, discussions of gene therapy and the molecular biology of ALS--all with quiet but apt historical and literary embellishments ranging from Lucretius, William Shakespeare, the fascinating parable from Franz Kafka, to John Donne and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, whom he cites with uncommon clarity vis-à-