Mark O'Connell
2018 Winner
Mark O’Connell is a journalist, essayist and literary critic from Dublin. He is a books columnist for Slate, a staff writer at The Millions, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog and the Dublin Review; his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review and the Observer. Read Mark's prescription for writing here.
Wellcome Book Prize Achievement
To Be a Machine
