The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Encyclopedia
The Best American Science and Nature Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science
magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and is part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin
. Articles are chosen using the same procedure with other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chooses about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix.
Burkhard Bilger was the series editor for 2000 and 2001. Tim Folger
has been the series editor since 2002.
Popular science
Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many...
magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and is part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
. Articles are chosen using the same procedure with other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chooses about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix.
Burkhard Bilger was the series editor for 2000 and 2001. Tim Folger
Tim Folger
Tim Folger is an American science and nature writer. He is a contributing editor at Discover Magazine and writes about science for several other magazine. Folger has been the 'series editor' of The Best American Science and Nature Writing yearly anthology since 2002. He won the 2007 American...
has been the series editor since 2002.
Guest editors
- 2000: David QuammenDavid QuammenDavid Quammen is a science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Outside, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review....
- 2001: Edward O. Wilson
- 2002: Natalie AngierNatalie AngierNatalie Angier is a nonfiction writer and a science journalist for the New York Times.- Life :...
- 2003: Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
- 2004: Steven PinkerSteven PinkerSteven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author...
- 2005: Jonathan WeinerJonathan WeinerJonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment....
- 2006: Brian GreeneBrian GreeneBrian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds...
- 2007: Richard PrestonRichard PrestonRichard Preston, born August 5, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author perhaps best-known for his books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism, although he has written other non-fiction works...
- 2008: Jerome GroopmanJerome GroopmanJerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of five books, all written for a...
- 2009: Elizabeth KolbertElizabeth KolbertElizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.-Youth and education:...
- 2010: Freeman DysonFreeman DysonFreeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
- 2011: Mary RoachMary RoachMary Roach is a columnist and popular science writer. Raised in Etna, New Hampshire, she holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in Oakland, California...