Weiner, who spent 20 years as an independent writer before joining Columbia, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for The Beak of the Finch, about evolutionary biology. He learned to write about science in the early 1980s while working at the magazine The Sciences. In 1985, Weiner wrote...
Weiner, who spent 20 years as an independent writer before joining Columbia, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for The Beak of the Finch, about evolutionary biology. He learned to write about science in the early 1980s while working at the magazine The Sciences. In 1985, Weiner wrote his first book, Planet Earth, the companion volume to a seven-part PBS television series. His other award-winning books include Time, Love, Memory: A Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior and His Brother's Keeper, an account of a family’s struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.