Jonathan Weiner

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Jonathan Weiner (* 1953 in New York City ) is an American non-fiction author . For his book The Beak of the Finch or the Short Breath of Evolution (Original title: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time ) he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 .

Weiner is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of numerous other science books, including a biography of Seymour Benzer . He teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism , which awards the Pulitzer Prize. He currently lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Heiligman, a children's author.

Works

  • Planet Earth. Fate and future of the earth . Droemer Knaur , Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26301-7 .
  • The next hundred years. How the greenhouse effect will change our lives. Bertelsmann, 1990, ISBN 3-570-09669-6 .
    • Under the title: The climate catastrophe. How the greenhouse effect will change our lives. Goldmann-Taschenbuch 1995, ISBN 3-570-09669-6 . (with a recent epilogue)
    • Original: The Next One Hundred Years. Shaping the Fate of our Living Earth. Bantam Books, New York 1990.
  • The finch's beak or the short breath of evolution. Droemer Knaur , Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-26536-2 .
  • Time, love, memory. In search of the origins of behavior . Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-697-9 .
  • His brother's keeper . Siedler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88680-749-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Weiner, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City