With equal parts lucid travel narrative and scholarly rumination, Quammen (The Song of the Dodo) describes the fascinating past, tenuous present and bleak future of four supremely adapted predators ...

On a gray Montana morning, I sat with the science writer David Quammen in the office of his Bozeman home, each of us in opposite corners and wearing masks. Quammen’s rescue python, Boots, who was ...

The wonderful shop-talk site for science writers, The Open Notebook, just published the first of two interviews I did recently with author David Quammen about how he researched and wrote his ...

David Quammen, author of “The Song of the Dodo,” is known as a naturalist, as well as a wanderer to and travel writer about far-flung places. Although some of the essays in “Wild Thoughts From Wild ...

Quammen says the inspiration for Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic came while he was on a trans-African hike with biologist Michael Fay in 2000. Sitting around a campfire one ...

CNN announced that “Empire” actress Taraji Henson and science writer David Quammen, author of “Spillover,” will be among guests for its weekly coronavirus town hall scheduled for Thursday night. The ...

David Quammen ventures fearlessly into the wild. Not only does the ecology writer find himself freezing in Siberia and sweltering in the Australian Outback, in search of all the scary places where ...

Acclaimed science writer David Quammen, author of EBOLA: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Norton), first came near the Ebola virus while he was traveling in the jungles of Gabon, ...