Contributors’ Biographies

Lawrence K. Altman, M.D. is a longtime medical reporter for The New York Times who regularly writes The Doctor’s Life column.

Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer for The New York Times and author of several books, mostly recently Woman: An Intimate Geography.

Homer Bigart (1907–1991) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and war correspondent for The New York Times and The New York Herald Tribune.

Sandra Blakeslee, a science writer who frequently contributes to The New York Times, is the author, most recently, of Missing Microbes.

Jane E. Brody writes the Personal Health column for The New York Times and is the author of numerous books on health and nutrition.

Alan Cowell is a senior New York Times foreign correspondent based in London.

Leonard Engel (1916–1964) was a contributor to many national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, and author of several books on science.

Lucy Freeman (1916–2004) was a reporter and author whose early coverage of psychiatry and mental health for The New York Times led to wider coverage of the subjects.

Erica Goode is a national correspondent for The New York Times.

Denise Grady is a science reporter for The New York Times and the author of Deadly Invaders, a book about emerging viruses.

Amy Harmon is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2008 series, The DNA Age. She is also the author of the ebook Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You’re Not Wired to Connect.

Gardiner Harris, who has been a science reporter for The New York Times, is currently a foreign correspondent for the paper based in New Delhi.

Emma Harrison (1921–1970) was a New York Times reporter whose coverage of mental health news won several awards.

Waldemar Kaempffert (1877–1956) was a science writer and museum director who worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1953.

Gina Kolata reports on science and medicine for The New York Times. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is the author of several books, including Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Search for the Virus That Caused It.

William L. Laurence (1888–1977) was a science writer for The New York Times and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for The New York Times, is the co-author of U.S. vs. Microsoft and author of Digital Revolutionaries.

Richard D. Lyons (1928–2013) was a reporter who covered science and medicine, as well as Congress and the United Nations, for The New York Times.

Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a reporter in the science department of The New York Times.

Adam Nossiter is the Dakar bureau chief of The New York Times.

Norimitsu Onishi is the Johannesburg bureau chief of The New York Times.

John A. Osmundsen is a former science reporter for The New York Times and the author of a number of books, including Sweet Reason: On Life, Love and War in the Nuclear Age.

Robert K. Plumb (1922–1972) was a reporter for The New York Times for 18 years and later wrote for Medical World News.

Robert Reinhold (1941–1996) was a science writer and national correspondent for The New York Times.

Howard A. Rusk, M.D. (1901–1989), whose specialized in the rehabilitation of the physically disabled, wrote a weekly column for The New York Times from 1946 to 1969.

Emanie N. Sachs (1894–1981), a novelist and biographer, also wrote for The New York Times and for a number of magazines.

Harold M. Schmeck Jr. (1923–2013) was a science writer for The New York Times who specialized in covering medical research.

Dana Adams Schmidt (1915–1994) was a New York Times foreign correspondent who covered Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Craig S. Smith, a former New York Times foreign correspondent and Shanghai bureau chief, is now managing director of The Times’s business operations in China.

Michael Specter, a former reporter for The Washington Post and The New York Times, is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Walter Sullivan (1918–1996) was an award-winning science reporter and editor for The New York Times.

M.A. Taft (1861–1944) was a reporter for The New York Times for more than a quarter of a century who covered the early years of the women’s suffrage movement, among other subjects.

Van Buren Thorne, M.D. (1870–1935) was on the staff of The New York Times for 30 years.

Abraham Verghese is the author of the novel Cutting for Stone and other books. He is a the Linda R. Meir and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor at Stanford University and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine.

Nicholas Wade is a former editorial writer, science reporter and editor for The New York Times and author, most recently, of A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.