Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer has written about science at The New York Times since 2004. His 13 books include Parasite Rex and Evolution: Making Sense of Life. Zimmer started in science journalism at Discover, where he served as a senior editor from 1995 to 1999. He has written hundreds of articles for magazines including National Geographic, Wired and The Atlantic, and he currently is national correspondent for STAT. In 2003, Zimmer started the Loom, an award-winning blog about science. Among his honors, Zimmer is a three-time winner of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Prize. He is a professor adjunct at Yale University, where he teaches writing. He appears regularly on Radiolab. Currently Zimmer is working on a book about heredity, which will be published by Dutton in 2018.