David Quammen

American science and nature writer

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2022 Published 'Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus', likely addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 Published 'The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life', further contributing to scientific literature.
2016 Published 'Yellowstone: A Journey Through America's Wild Heart' through National Geographic
2015 Published 'The Chimp and the River: How AIDS emerged from an African Forest', continuing his exploration of disease origins.
2014 Published 'Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus' through Norton
2014 The David Quammen collection was completed at Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, containing approximately 63 boxes of his literary works, research, correspondence, and artifacts spanning from 1856 to 2014.
2013 Received the Science in Society Book Award from the National Association of Science Writers and the Royal Society of Biology Book Award in General Biology for Spillover. The book was also shortlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
2012 Received the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
2012 Published Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.

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