PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

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The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of näytä lisää $10,000 and will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.

Official award page

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Longlists näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (14), Shortlist (22), Longlist (19)
Luokat:
Kaikki, Runner-up (3), No Category (52)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (10), 2016 (10), 2015 (9), 2014 (10), 2013 (6), 2012 (3), 2011 (3)

Winner 14

Shortlist 22

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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (tekijä: Dan Flores)2017
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight (tekijä: Julian Guthrie)2017
Lab Girl (tekijä: Hope Jahren)2017
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish (tekijä: Emily Voigt)2017
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (tekijä: Cynthia Barnett)2016
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star (tekijä: Tom Clynes)2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World (tekijä: Joel K. Bourne Jr)2016
Island on Fire: the Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Forgotten Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark (tekijä: Alexandra Witze)2016
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (tekijä: Steven Johnson)2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (tekijä: Elizabeth Kolbert)2015
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era (tekijä: Craig Nelson)2015
Proof: The Science of Booze (tekijä: Adam Rogers)2015
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light (tekijä: Paul Bogard)2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (tekijä: Sheri Fink)2014
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (tekijä: Douglas Hofstadter)2014
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America (tekijä: Jon Mooallem)2014
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (tekijä: David George Haskell)2013
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (tekijä: Sam Kean)2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (tekijä: David Quammen)2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (tekijä: Bill Wasik)2013
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (tekijä: Donovan Hohn)2012
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (tekijä: David Abram)2011

Longlist 19

TeosVuosi
The Genius of Birds (tekijä: Jennifer Ackerman)2017
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins (tekijä: Jonathan Balcombe)2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature (tekijä: Jordan Fisher Smith)2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (tekijä: Dava Sobel)2017
The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self (tekijä: Anil Ananthaswamy)2016
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved (tekijä: Marcia Bartusiak)2016
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults (tekijä: Frances E. Jensen)2016
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry (tekijä: Jeffrey A. Lieberman)2016
Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything (tekijä: George Musser)2016
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (tekijä: Sam Kean)2015
Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery (tekijä: Catherine Musemeche MD)2015
Kopernikuskompleksi: Kosminen merkityksemme planeettojen ja todennäköisyyksien universumissa (tekijä: Caleb Scharf)2015
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle (tekijä: Andreas Wagner)2015
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts (tekijä: Emily Anthes)2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (tekijä: Mary Roach)2014
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own (tekijä: David Toomey)2014
What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World (tekijä: Cat Warren)2014
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (tekijä: Marlene Zuk)2014

Kuvailut

The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of $10,000 and will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.

Official award page

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Longlists (English, Member-written)
The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of $10,000 and will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.

Official award page

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award winners

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalists (English, Member-written)
The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of $10,000 and will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.

Official award page

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award winners

Book awards: PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Longlist (English, Member-written)

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