The National Book Foundation wrote the following in its citation of Radioactive, the first visual book to be named a finalist for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction: “Redniss’ achievement is a celebration of the essential power of books to inform, charm, and transport. She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. These genre-defying books combine oral history, visual art, reportage, and archival research to create volumes that look a bit like graphic novels but read like nothing else you’ve ever experienced. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for her 2015 book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future. She is a 2017 New America Foundation fellow. L auren Redniss is the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and the author of four remarkable works of visual nonfiction. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth. In Thunder and Lightning, Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer nominee Lauren Redniss draws a new account of the weather. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. Redniss was the recipient of a “Genius Grant” from the John D. Samenvatting 21st-century genius Elle A howling wind, a thunderstorm, the beating sun it’s with the elements that nature shows its true force and wonder. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. Her writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize.

She is also the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. In this episode, graphic journalist and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Lauren Redniss, author of Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, talks with. A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur 'Genius' and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. An uncategorisable, distinctly beautiful piece of science writing a visual biography of the weather by a writer of sheer imaginative genius (Malcolm. Her most recent book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, won the 2016 PEN/E. Lauren Redniss is the author of three works of visual non-fiction.

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