Charles C. Mann (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics. In 2006 his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. He is the co-author of four books, and contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired.
Biography
Mann was born in 1955 and graduated from Amherst College in 1976.[1][2] Mann has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post.[3] In 2005 he wrote 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, followed in 2011 by 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.[4] He served as a judge for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012.[5] He has also written for the TV series Law & Order.[6]
He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.[3] He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife and children.[7]
In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment.[8][9] The titular "wizard" Mann refers to is Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner credited with developing the Green Revolution and saving one billion people from starvation.[10] Mann refers to William Vogt, an early proponent of population control, as the "prophet".[11]
Bibliography
Books written or co-written by Mann
- (with Robert P. Crease) The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics, 1st ed., New York: Macmillan, 1986; rev. ed., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996
- (with Mark L. Plummer) The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
- (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, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Knopf, 2011
- 1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization, Seven Stories Press, 2015.
- Mann, Charles C. (January 2018). The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-96169-3.
Selected articles by Mann
- — (September 2008). "Our Good Earth: The Future Rests on the Soil Beneath Our Feet; Can We Save It?". National Geographic. pp. 80–107.
- — (June 2011). "The Birth of Religion". National Geographic. pp. 34–59. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018.
- — (November 2012). "State of the Species: Does Success Spell Doom for Homo sapiens?". Orion.
- — (January 2018). "The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation". Smithsonian.
- — (March 2018). "How Will We Feed the New Global Middle Class?". The Atlantic. Vol. 321, no. 2. Illustrated by Ulises Fariñas. pp. 52–61.
Reviews of books by Mann
- Gross, Terry; Mann, Charles C. (August 8, 2011). "In '1493,' Columbus Shaped A World To Be" (Interview). Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
- Heck, Peter (September 2013). "On Books". Asimov's Science Fiction. Vol. 37, no. 9. pp. 107–111. Review of 1491 and 1493.
- Easterly, William (January 19, 2017). "Review: Going Beyond the Limits of the Earth with 'The Wizard and the Prophet'". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
References
- ^ Hahn, Jonathan (August 19, 2018). "Best-selling Science Writer Charles Mann Has Always Been a Tinkerer". Sierra. Sierra Club.
- ^ Lederman, Diane (March 24, 2018). "Amherst writer Charles Mann once loved the idea of town meeting. Now, not so much". The Republican. Springfield: Masslive.
- ^ a b Mann, Charles C. (2011). 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 537: A Note About the Author. ISBN 978-0-307-26572-2.
- ^ "The World Columbus Created". RadioWest website. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
- ^ "Announcing the 2012 PEN Literary Award Recipients". PEN American Center. October 15, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- ^ Contrada, Fred (September 13, 1999). "Copyright control losing to Internet". Union-News. p. B1 – via NewsBankurl=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/0F2F060C27D45C87.
- ^ "Charles C. Mann: Biography". Retrieved February 22, 2012.
- ^ "The Conversation". The Atlantic. May 1, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Ragland, Wylheme H. (April 15, 2018). "Book Review: Two scientists' view of progress, pain". The Decatur Daily. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Anderson, M. J. (April 27, 2018). "Recalling the birth of environmentalism". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Broby, Taylor (February 5, 2018). "'The Wizard and the Prophet' review: Charles C. Mann explores the future of food on our planet". Newsday. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
External links
- "An Interview with Charles C. Mann" at BookBrowse
- Charles C. Mann on the Muck Rack journalist listing site
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