Charles C. Mann

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Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann (born June 12, 1955 in Michigan , USA) is an American author and journalist .

Life

Mann is particularly concerned with the Columbian Exchange after the discovery of America. His book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005), which only appeared in German in 2016, received the National Academies Communication Award . Mann's first book to be translated into German was 1493 - uncovering the new world Columbus created (2011). It is "an adventurously clever book about the interactions between nature and politics", judged Elisabeth von Thadden .

Mann is co-author of other books and writes regularly for Science , Atlantic Monthly and Wired , among others , and some articles appear in Fortune , The New York Times , Smithsonian , Technology Review , Vanity Fair and The Washington Post .

He was named in the National Magazine Award as well as with grants from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Amherst , Massachusetts , is married with several children.

Fonts (selection)

He has authored a number of books and magazine articles.

  • With Mark L. Plummer : The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition , Harvard Business School Press, 1991
  • With Robert P. Crease : The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics , 1986; rev. ed., 1995
  • With Mark L. Plummer: Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species , 1995
  • With David H. Freedman : @ Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion , 1997
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus . Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
    • Charles C. Mann: America before Columbus. The story of an undiscovered continent . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-04536-4 , p. 720 .
  • Our Good Earth: The future rests on the soil beneath our feet; Can we save it? In: National Geographic , September 2008. 80-107.
  • 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, USA 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-26572-2 .
    • Columbus' legacy. How people, animals, plants crossed the oceans and created the world of today . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-04524-1 .
  • " State of the Species: Does success spell doom for Homo sapiens? " Orion Magazine, November / December 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by FAZ , Charles C. Mann: Columbus' legacy The human gets into the Homogenocene FAZ October 1, 2013
  2. ^ Zeit Literatur, November 2013, p. 46.
  3. ^ A b Charles C. Mann: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-26572-2 , p. 537: A Note About the Author.
  4. ^ Charles C. Mann: Biography . Retrieved February 22, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Mann, Charles C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan , United States