PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Given by PEN America

52 Works / 55 Items 38,948 Livros 1,812 Críticas 4.0
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 mostrar mais $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 mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (14), Shortlist (22), Longlist (19)
Categorias:
Todos, Runner-up (3), No Category (52)
Anos:
Todos, 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

ObraAno
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History por Dan Flores2017
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight por Julian Guthrie2017
Lab Girl por Hope Jahren2017
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish por Emily Voigt2017
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History por Cynthia Barnett2016
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star por Tom Clynes2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World por Joel K. Bourne Jr2016
Island on Fire: the Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Forgotten Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark por Alexandra Witze2016
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World por Steven Johnson2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History por Elizabeth Kolbert2015
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era por Craig Nelson2015
Proof: The Science of Booze por Adam Rogers2015
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light por Paul Bogard2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital por Sheri Fink2014
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking por Douglas Hofstadter2014
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America por Jon Mooallem2014
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature por David George Haskell2013
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code por Sam Kean2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic por David Quammen2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus por Bill Wasik2013
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 por Donovan Hohn2012
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology por David Abram2011

Longlist 19

ObraAno
The Genius of Birds por Jennifer Ackerman2017
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins por Jonathan Balcombe2017
The Gene: An Intimate History por Siddhartha Mukherjee2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature por Jordan Fisher Smith2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars por Dava Sobel2017
The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self por Anil Ananthaswamy2016
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved por Marcia Bartusiak2016
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults por Frances E. Jensen2016
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry por Jeffrey A. Lieberman2016
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 por George Musser2016
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery por Sam Kean2015
Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery por Catherine Musemeche MD2015
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities por Caleb Scharf2015
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle por Andreas Wagner2015
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts por Emily Anthes2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal por Mary Roach2014
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own por David Toomey2014
What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World por Cat Warren2014
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live por Marlene Zuk2014

Descrições

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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