For the last dozen years, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer ...



For the last dozen years, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jonathan Weiner has observed biologists studying evolution in the Galapagos Archipelago and researching molecular structures in Fly Rooms. He has witnessed time shaping life on the largest and the smallest scale. Weiner takes us on a captivating journey of his temporal structuring, which he describes as "turbulent on all scales if we look closely enough."

An independent writer, Jonathan Weiner is "fascinated by biology." His latest book, Time, Love, Memory, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1999 and was chosen as one of the year's best books by Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal, one of the year's ten best books about science and nature by , and the year's top bestseller in biology by New Scientist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for

General Non-Fiction for his 1994 book The Beak of the Finch. Planet Earth, his first book, was the companion volume to the Emmy award-winning PBS series.

His books, translated into more than a dozen languages, have been supported by grants from NASA and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Time, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. The New Yorker's excerpt of Time, Love, Memory was reprinted in The Best American Science Writing 2000.

Weiner has taught at Princeton University, The Rockefeller University, and Arizona State. He writes, "I went to Harvard [as an undergraduate] planning to become a biologist. Instead, I spent my four years there trying to write poetry. After I graduated, I wrote an essay about one of my pet subjects in biology. Harvard Magazine published the essay, "Marching Along with the Social Amoeba," and I've been marching along with the social amoeba ever since. My aim is to follow science without marching away from poetry."

Jonathan Weiner delivered the Rhodes lecture, entitled “The New Biology:Three Dreams and Three Nightmares” on February 21, 2001 at The Evelyn Smith Music Theatre, ASU Main campus.

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