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Natalie Angier | |
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Born | New York City, New York | February 16, 1958
Nationality | United States |
Occupation | Science writer |
Employer | The New York Times |
Known for | Science articles and books |
Notable work | Woman: An Intimate Geography, 1999; The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2007 |
Spouse | Rick Weiss |
Children | Katherine Weiss Angier |
Parents |
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Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 1991 |
Natalie Angier /ænˈdʒɪər/ [1] (born February 16, 1958 [2] in the Bronx [3], New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times. [2] Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 [2] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. [4] She is also noted for her public identification as an atheist and received the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003. [5]
Angier was born in the Bronx, [3] New York City, on February 16, 1958, to Keith Angier and Adele Angier, née Rosenthal. [6] She was raised in the Bronx and New Buffalo, Michigan. [7]
Angier began her college studies at age 16 at the University of Michigan. [3] After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied English, physics, and astronomy at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude [6] in 1978. [2] She also studied medieval literature, post graduation. [3]
Angier began her writing career as a technical writer for Texas Instruments. [3] She was then hired as a founding staff member of Discover Magazine in 1980 and largely wrote about evolutionary biology and animal behavior during her four years there. [3] [8] After Discover, she worked as a senior science writer for Time Magazine; as an editor at the women’s magazine, Savvy (now defunct); and as a professor at the New York University’s Graduate Program in Science and Environmental Reporting. [7]
In 1990, Angier joined The New York Times as a science writer and remains on staff. [7] She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 [7] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. [4], among many other awards detailed in the Awards and honors section below.
Her writing has appeared in print and on-line magazines: The American Scholar, The Atlantic, GEO, National Geographic, O magazine, Parade, Slate, Smithsonian, Washington Monthly, among others. [7] Angier’s books and anthology contributions are detailed in the Books section below.
Angier is a voting member of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary. [7] [9]
Ann Darby, in Publishers Weekly, described Angier’s work as “push[ing] the bounds of science writing:” [3]
Tackling unusual, sometimes even repugnant topics in vivid, playful and acrobatic prose, [Angier] has developed a style and an approach to stories that are distinctly hers. Gifted with a voracious and wide-ranging curiosity, she is always on the watch for exotic and sometimes whimsical subjects, from the nouveau spelling of children’s names to the genitalia of male insects.
— Ann Darby, “Natalie Angier: The Science Of Being Female”, Publishers Weekly (March 22, 1999) [3]
Thomas Lynch, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote this about Angier’s 1999 book, Woman: An Intimate Geography:
One knows early on one is reading a classic--a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it. It is the writing, of course. Voice-driven, image-rich, by turns celebratory, incantational, doubtful and debunking, wondrous and robust and patient in its explanations, free ranging in its inquiries, ever on the look out for metaphor and icon and signs of intelligent life--it is the writing that makes the impression permanent.
— Thomas Lynch, “Liberation Biology”, Los Angeles Times (March 28, 1999) [10]
Regarding Angier’s 2010 book, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Barbara Ehrenreich said, “Finally, Nature has a found a biographer who’s up to the task.” [5] And, Richard Dawkins described the book as “an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing.” [5]
Angier first publicly described herself as an atheist in 2001: [5]
So, I’ll out myself. I’m an Atheist. I don’t believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don’t believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren’t, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I’m convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let’s even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.
— Natalie Angier, “Confessions of a Lonely Atheist”, New York Times Sunday Magazine (January 14, 2001) [11]
This, in part, is why Angier was presented with the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003. [12]
Angier married Rick Weiss on July 27, 1991. [13] Rick Weiss is a former science reporter for The Washington Post. [14] Angier and Weiss live in Takoma Park, Maryland [12] and have a daughter, Katherine Weiss Angier, [8] who graduated summa cum laude in 2018 from Princeton with a degree in Biology. [15]
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Natalie Angier | |
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Born | New York City, New York | February 16, 1958
Nationality | United States |
Occupation | Science writer |
Employer | The New York Times |
Known for | Science articles and books |
Notable work | Woman: An Intimate Geography, 1999; The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2007 |
Spouse | Rick Weiss |
Children | Katherine Weiss Angier |
Parents |
|
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 1991 |
Natalie Angier /ænˈdʒɪər/ [1] (born February 16, 1958 [2] in the Bronx [3], New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times. [2] Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 [2] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. [4] She is also noted for her public identification as an atheist and received the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003. [5]
Angier was born in the Bronx, [3] New York City, on February 16, 1958, to Keith Angier and Adele Angier, née Rosenthal. [6] She was raised in the Bronx and New Buffalo, Michigan. [7]
Angier began her college studies at age 16 at the University of Michigan. [3] After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied English, physics, and astronomy at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude [6] in 1978. [2] She also studied medieval literature, post graduation. [3]
Angier began her writing career as a technical writer for Texas Instruments. [3] She was then hired as a founding staff member of Discover Magazine in 1980 and largely wrote about evolutionary biology and animal behavior during her four years there. [3] [8] After Discover, she worked as a senior science writer for Time Magazine; as an editor at the women’s magazine, Savvy (now defunct); and as a professor at the New York University’s Graduate Program in Science and Environmental Reporting. [7]
In 1990, Angier joined The New York Times as a science writer and remains on staff. [7] She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 [7] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. [4], among many other awards detailed in the Awards and honors section below.
Her writing has appeared in print and on-line magazines: The American Scholar, The Atlantic, GEO, National Geographic, O magazine, Parade, Slate, Smithsonian, Washington Monthly, among others. [7] Angier’s books and anthology contributions are detailed in the Books section below.
Angier is a voting member of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary. [7] [9]
Ann Darby, in Publishers Weekly, described Angier’s work as “push[ing] the bounds of science writing:” [3]
Tackling unusual, sometimes even repugnant topics in vivid, playful and acrobatic prose, [Angier] has developed a style and an approach to stories that are distinctly hers. Gifted with a voracious and wide-ranging curiosity, she is always on the watch for exotic and sometimes whimsical subjects, from the nouveau spelling of children’s names to the genitalia of male insects.
— Ann Darby, “Natalie Angier: The Science Of Being Female”, Publishers Weekly (March 22, 1999) [3]
Thomas Lynch, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote this about Angier’s 1999 book, Woman: An Intimate Geography:
One knows early on one is reading a classic--a text so necessary and abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after it, will be measured by it. It is the writing, of course. Voice-driven, image-rich, by turns celebratory, incantational, doubtful and debunking, wondrous and robust and patient in its explanations, free ranging in its inquiries, ever on the look out for metaphor and icon and signs of intelligent life--it is the writing that makes the impression permanent.
— Thomas Lynch, “Liberation Biology”, Los Angeles Times (March 28, 1999) [10]
Regarding Angier’s 2010 book, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Barbara Ehrenreich said, “Finally, Nature has a found a biographer who’s up to the task.” [5] And, Richard Dawkins described the book as “an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing.” [5]
Angier first publicly described herself as an atheist in 2001: [5]
So, I’ll out myself. I’m an Atheist. I don’t believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don’t believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren’t, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I’m convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let’s even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.
— Natalie Angier, “Confessions of a Lonely Atheist”, New York Times Sunday Magazine (January 14, 2001) [11]
This, in part, is why Angier was presented with the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003. [12]
Angier married Rick Weiss on July 27, 1991. [13] Rick Weiss is a former science reporter for The Washington Post. [14] Angier and Weiss live in Takoma Park, Maryland [12] and have a daughter, Katherine Weiss Angier, [8] who graduated summa cum laude in 2018 from Princeton with a degree in Biology. [15]
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