PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Given by PEN America

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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 afficher plus $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 afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Winner (16), Shortlist (53), Longlist (84)
Catégories:
Tous, Runner-up (3), Aucune catégorie. (108)

Winner 13

ŒuvreAnnée
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey par Florence Williams2023
Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship par Catherine Raven2022
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl par Jonathan C. Slaght2021
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves par Frans de Waal2020
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter par Ben Goldfarb2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine par Lindsey Fitzharris2018
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets par Luke Dittrich2017
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future par Lauren Redniss2016
War of the Whales: A True Story par Joshua Horwitz2015
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society par Carl Hart2014
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior par Leonard Mlodinow2013
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood par James Gleick2012
L'empereur de toutes les maladies : Une biographie du cancer par Siddhartha Mukherjee2011

Shortlist 53

ŒuvreAnnée
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey par Florence Williams2023
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage par Rachel E. Gross2023
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction par David George Haskell2023
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math par Manil Suri2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us par Ed Yong2023
Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship par Catherine Raven2022
The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery par Lauren Aguirre2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred par Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2022
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World par Lisa Wells2022
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive par Carl Zimmer2022
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl par Jonathan C. Slaght2021
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think par Jennifer Ackerman2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale par Rebecca Giggs2021
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers par Emily Levesque2021
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move par Sonia Shah2021
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves par Frans de Waal2020
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition par Patricia S. Churchland2020
On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden par Elizabeth Hennessy2020
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption par Dahr Jamail2020
Losing Earth: A Recent History par Nathaniel Rich2020
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter par Ben Goldfarb2019
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization par Vince Beiser2019
The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself par Andrea J. Buchanan2019
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds par Lauren Slater2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity par Carl Zimmer2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine par Lindsey Fitzharris2018
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World par David Baron2018
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life par David R. Montgomery2018
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America par Ron Powers2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst par Robert M. Sapolsky2018
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History par Dan Flores2017
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight par Julian Guthrie2017
Lab Girl par Hope Jahren2017
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish par Emily Voigt2017
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History par Cynthia Barnett2016
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star par Tom Clynes2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World par Joel K. Bourne Jr2016
Island on Fire: the Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Forgotten Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-Century Europe Dark par Alexandra Witze2016
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World par Steven Johnson2015
La 6e extinction par Elizabeth Kolbert2015
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era par Craig Nelson2015
Proof: The Science of Booze par Adam Rogers2015
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society par Carl Hart2014
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light par Paul Bogard2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital par Sheri Fink2014
L'analogie : Coeur de la pensée par Douglas Hofstadter2014
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America par Jon Mooallem2014
Un an dans la vie d'une forêt par David George Haskell2013
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code par Sam Kean2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic par David Quammen2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus par 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 par Donovan Hohn2012
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology par David Abram2011

Longlist 84

ŒuvreAnnée
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey par Florence Williams2023
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage par Rachel E. Gross2023
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction par David George Haskell2023
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math par Manil Suri2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us par Ed Yong2023
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers par Erica Hannickel2023
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain par Sara Manning Peskin2023
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood par Dhun Sethna2023
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist par Frans de Waal2023
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters par Marlene Zuk2023
Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship par Catherine Raven2022
The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery par Lauren Aguirre2022
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred par Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2022
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World par Lisa Wells2022
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive par Carl Zimmer2022
This Is the Voice par John Colapinto2022
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways par Tyler J. Kelley2022
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth par Avi Loeb2022
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade par Nathaniel Rich2022
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race par Shanna H. Swan2022
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl par Jonathan C. Slaght2021
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think par Jennifer Ackerman2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale par Rebecca Giggs2021
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers par Emily Levesque2021
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move par Sonia Shah2021
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You par Sean B. Carroll2021
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live par Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD2021
Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells par Harold McGee2021
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women par Sharon Moalem2021
Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever par Bijal P. Trivedi2021
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves par Frans de Waal2020
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition par Patricia S. Churchland2020
On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden par Elizabeth Hennessy2020
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption par Dahr Jamail2020
Losing Earth: A Recent History par Nathaniel Rich2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants par Bill Bryson2020
Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience par Michael S. A. Graziano2020
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains par Joseph LeDoux2020
Hot Carbon par Professor John F. Marra2020
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming par David Wallace-Wells2020
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter par Ben Goldfarb2019
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization par Vince Beiser2019
The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself par Andrea J. Buchanan2019
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds par Lauren Slater2019
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity par Carl Zimmer2019
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics par Adam Becker2019
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World par Marcia Bjornerud2019
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century par Deborah Blum2019
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life par David Quammen2019
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge par Susan Hand Shetterly2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine par Lindsey Fitzharris2018
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World par David Baron2018
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life par David R. Montgomery2018
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America par Ron Powers2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst par Robert M. Sapolsky2018
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain par Lisa Feldman Barrett2018
The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here? par Lawrence M. Krauss2018
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival par Robert Jay Lifton2018
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River par David Owen2018
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us par Richard O. Prum2018
The Genius of Birds par Jennifer Ackerman2017
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins par Jonathan Balcombe2017
The Gene: An Intimate History par Siddhartha Mukherjee2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature par Jordan Fisher Smith2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars par Dava Sobel2017
The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self par Anil Ananthaswamy2016
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved par Marcia Bartusiak2016
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults par Frances E. Jensen2016
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry par 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 par George Musser2016
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery par Sam Kean2015
Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery par Catherine Musemeche MD2015
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities par Caleb Scharf2015
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle par Andreas Wagner2015
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society par Carl Hart2014
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light par Paul Bogard2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital par Sheri Fink2014
L'analogie : Coeur de la pensée par Douglas Hofstadter2014
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America par Jon Mooallem2014
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts par Emily Anthes2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal par Mary Roach2014
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own par David Toomey2014
What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World par Cat Warren2014
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live par Marlene Zuk2014

Descriptions

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)