Series Editor Jesse Cohen and contributors Charles Siebert, Michael Specter, and Amy Harmon will read from and discuss their contributions to the collection of the year's most relevant and compelling science writing

About Best American Science Writing 2011:

The latest edition of Ecco's popular annual series, Best American Science Writing 2011 offers a collection of the year's most relevant and compelling science writing. This year's guest editors, award-winning science writer and New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, and her father Floyd Skloot, the award-winning non-fiction writer, poet, and past contributor to the series, have brought together a wide variety of works, providing a comprehensive overview of the most crucial and stimulating science writing of the past year.

An essential addition to every Best American anthology reader's collection, Best American Science Writing 2011 covers the full spectrum of scientific inquiry—from neuroscience and artificial intelligence to global warming and genetics—with in-depth accounts of the major scientific developments and issues of the year.

About the speakers:

Jesse Cohen is the Best American Science Writing series editor, a writer, and freelance editor who lives in New York City.

Amy Harmon is a New York Times national correspondent who covers the impact of science and technology on American life. She has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 2008 for her series "The DNA Age," the other as part of a team in 2001. Her chronicle of a clinical trial, "Target Cancer," received several honors this year. Harmon's first journalism job was at the Los Angeles Times, where she parlayed her amazing early-1990s ability to send email into a beat. Her article "Facing Life with the Lethal Gene" appeared in Best American Science Writing in 2010.

Charles Siebert is the author of three critically acclaimed memoirs, The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, A Man After His Own Heart, and Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998, as well as a novel, Angus, and The Secret World of Whales, a children's book about whales. A poet, journalist, essayist, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, he has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Outside, Men's Journal, and National Geographic.

Michael Specter, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, writes about science and global public health. His book, Denialism, published by Penguin, is out in paperback.

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