Robin Marantz Henig is the author of eight books. Her previous book
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes about science and medicine for the
New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer, as well as for publications such as
Scientific American,
Smithsonian, and
The Washington Post.
Robin Henig garnered two prestigious awards in 2006: The Science in Society Award, the highest honor in science journalism, awarded by the National Association of Science Writers, and The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize awarded by The History of Science Society for the best book in the history of science for general readers.