Charles Mann

Journalist

TL;DR -- Writer (books, magazines, newspapers, a little TV). Various awards, honors. The self-promotional paragraph that I give to people: CHARLES C. MANN’s most recent book, The Wizard and the Prophet (2018), has been called "brilliant" (William Easterly, Wall Street Journal), "fascinating" (Tyler Priest, Science), and "compelling" (Fred Pearce, Washington Post) -- "anyone who is struggling with these puzzles will be enlightened and informed" (Bill McKibben, New York Times). His previous books include 1491, winner of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck award for the best book of the year, and 1493, a New York Times best-seller. A Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including BioScience, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Geo (Germany), National Geographic, The New York Times (magazine, op-ed, book review), Panorama (Italy), Paris-Match (France), Quark (Japan), Smithsonian, Der Stern (Germany), Technology Review, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post (magazine, op-ed, book review). In addition to writing for print outlets, he has also written for CD-ROMs, HBO, and the television show Law and Order, and was the text editorial coordinator for the internationally best-selling photographic projects Material World (1994), Women in the Material World (1996), and Hungry Planet (2005). A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has received writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Margaret Sanger Foundation and the Lannan Foundation (a 2006 Literary Fellowship).

Indigenous rights, food and agriculture, histories of exchange, environmental issues

Making marmalade, helping schoolkids build computers, splitting wood, helping create Native American culture centers