Richard Preston
In conversation with Judith Lewis, senior editor, L.A. Weekly
From the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, an amazing account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the startling biosystem of "the canopy" and those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.
Richard Preston is the author of seven books, including The Hot Zone, The Cobra Event and The Demon in the Freezer, which are his “Dark Biology” series. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His books have been translated into more than 30 languagues, and he’s won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award. He’s also the only person who isn't a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award for public health. An asteroid is named "Preston" after him. (Asteroid Preston is a ball of rock three miles across. It may slam into Mars or the Earth some day, creating an explosion similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.) He's the brother of bestselling author Douglas Preston.
Judith Lewis is a senior editor at the LA Weekly, where her writing on technology, the arts, natural resource issues, public health and the environment has appeared since 1991. Her work also appears in High Country News, Wired, Salon, Sierra Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She won a first-place Los Angeles Press Club award for her technology column, "Close to the Machine" and an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for her reporting on nuclear power and global warming. She is a member of the Society for Environmental Journalists, and is currently at work on a lay person's guide to nuclear energy.
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