David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree,
The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient
of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker,
Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside,
among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the
National Magazine Award.
Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy
Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian
wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python.
Visit him at DavidQuammen.com
A supernova in among science journalists
*Oprah Daily*
An expert eye on Covid's past and present [and] a viral howdunnit
that is pacy and unafraid to educate readers
*Observer*
[A] tour de force...A luminous, passionate account of the defining
crisis of our time - and the unprecedented international response
to it.
*The New York Times Book Review*
As close to authoritative history - from the virus's origins to
vaccines and variants - as we have, told through scientists
involved, and the signature ease of Quammen's prose. It reads like
a real-time thriller.
*Chicago Tribune*
Will likely prove to be a classic in the history of science ... a
masterpiece
*Stanley Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine*
[An] engrossing, at times breathless, scientific narrative of the
COVID-19
*Nature*
A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that
reads like a detective story
*Walter Isaacson on Spillover*
Fascinating and terrifying, Spillover is a real-life thriller with
an outcome that affects us all
*Elizabeth Kolbert on Spillover*
A tremendous book... this gives you all you need to know and should
know. Quammen's research and analysis makes sensationalism
unnecessary
*Sunday Times on Spillover*
Chilling... [A] brilliant, devastating book
*Daily Mail on Spillover*
Travelling deep into the rainforest with the scientists hoping to
identify the next pandemic pathogen, Quammen's book is plotted like
a detective thriller
*Gaia Vince, Guardian on Spillover*
David Quammen might be my favourite living science writer: amiable,
erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane
*New York Magazine on Spillover*
Come for the compelling interviews with key scientists, including
Anthony Fauci; stay for the deep dive into the wild and
unpredictable world of viruses
*Financial Times, *Books of the Year**
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