Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist who has been
pursuing independent research in paleobiology since 1996, when she
completed her PhD at University of California Berkeley and began
teaching and researching first at the Georgia Institute of
Technology and then at Johns Hopkins University. She is the
recipient of three Fulbright Awards and is one of four scientists,
and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young
Investigator Medals given within the Earth Sciences. She was a
tenured professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu from 2008
to 2016, where she built the Isotope Geobiology Laboratories, with
support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Energy and the National Institutes of Health. She currently holds
the J. Tuzo Wilson professorship at the University of Oslo,
Norway.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography•
A New York Times Notable Book • Winner of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize
for Excellence in Science Books • Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson
Literary Science Writing Award • One of the Best Books of the Year:
The Washington Post, TIME.com, NPR, Slate, Entertainment Weekly,
Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews
“Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is a beautifully written memoir about the
life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the
profundity of trees. Terrific.” —President Barack Obama
“Engrossing. . . . Thrilling. . . . Does for botany what Oliver
Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings
did for paleontology.” —The New York Times
“Lab Girl made me look at trees differently. It compelled me to
ponder the astonishing grace and gumption of a seed. Perhaps most
importantly, it introduced me to a deeply inspiring
woman—a scientist so passionate about her work I felt myself
vividly with her on every page. This is a smart,
enthralling, and winning debut.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Brilliant. . . . Extraordinary. . . . Delightfully, wickedly
funny. . . . Powerful and disarming.” —The Washington Post
“Clear, compelling and uncompromisingly honest . . . Hope Jahren is
the voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature
"Spirited. . . . Stunning. . . . Moving.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“A powerful new memoir . . . Jahren is a remarkable scientist who
turns out to be a remarkable writer as well. . . . Think
Stephen Jay Gould or Oliver Sacks. But Hope Jahren is a woman in
science, who speaks plainly to just how rugged that can be. And to
the incredible machinery of life around us.” —On Point/NPR
“Lyrical . . . illuminating . . . Offers a lively glimpse
into a scientifically inclined mind.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Some people are great writers, while other people live lives of
adventure and importance. Almost no one does both. Hope Jahren does
both. She makes me wish I’d been a scientist.” —Ann Patchett,
author of State of Wonder
“Lab Girl surprised, delighted, and moved me. I was drawn in from
the start by the clarity and beauty of Jahren’s prose. . . .
With Lab Girl, Jahren joins those talented scientists who are able
to reveal to us the miracle of this world in which we live.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
“Revelatory. . . . A veritable jungle of ideas and sensations.”
—Slate
“Warm, witty . . . Fascinating. . . . Jahren’s singular gift
is her ability to convey the everyday wonder of her work:
exploring the strange, beautiful universe of living things
that endure and evolve and bloom all around us, if
we bother to look.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Deeply affecting. . . . A totally original work, both fierce and
uplifting. . . . A belletrist in the mold of Oliver Sacks, she is
terrific at showing just how science is done. . . . She’s an acute
observer, prickly, and funny as hell.” —Elle
“Magnificent. . . . [A] gorgeous book of life. . . . Jahren
contains multitudes. Her book is love as life. Trees as truth.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Mesmerizing. . . . Deft and flecked with humor . . . a scientist’s
memoir of a quirky, gritty, fascinating life. . . . Like Robert
Sapolsky’s A Primate’s Memoir or Helen Macdonald’s H is for
Hawk, it delivers the zing of a beautiful mind in nature.”
—Seattle Times
“Jahren's memoir [is] the beginning of a career along the lines of
Annie Dillard or Diane Ackerman.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“A scientific memoir that's beautifully human.” —Popular
Science
“Breathtakingly honest. . . . Gorgeous. . . . At its core, Lab Girl
is a book about seeing—with the eyes, but also the hands and the
heart.” —American Scientist
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