Frank Browning grew up on an apple orchard and tobacco farm in Kentucky. He now lives in Paris. A former NPR science reporter, his books include The American Way of Crime (with John Gerassi), The Culture of Desire, A Queer Geography, Apples: The Story of the Fruit of Temptation, and The Monk and the Skeptic. He writes on art and culture for the Huffington Post and has contributed to the Washington Post Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Salon, the Progressive, and other publications.