Ed Yong
2017 Shortlist
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports for the ‘Atlantic’. His blog, ‘Not Exactly Rocket Science’, was hosted by National Geographic, and his work has also appeared in ‘Wired’, the ‘New York Times’, ‘Nature’, the BBC, ‘New Scientist’, ‘Scientific American’, the ‘Guardian’, the ‘Times’ and more.
Wellcome Book Prize Achievement
I Contain Multitudes
By Ed Yong