Robert Kanigel

Biography

Robert Kanigel is a winner of the Grady-Stack award for science writing, and winner of Author of the Year honors in 1998 by the 1200-member American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). He is also a National Book Critics Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. His The One Best Way was one of four finalists for the Global Business Book Award for biography, co-sponsored by the Financial Times of London and the management consulting firm of Booz-Allen. The Man Who Knew Infinity is now in its fifth paperback printing. His fourth book, High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years, was published in June 2002 by Viking Press, and his fifth, Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes, was published in 2007.

His articles and essays have been published in magazines such as The Sciences, American Health, and The New York Times Magazine. His book reviews have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Psychology Today. For many years, he taught writing in the Publications Design Program at the University of Baltimore. Since September 1999, Kanigel has been a professor of science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and administrator of its new Graduate Program in Science Writing. A Kanigel talk on Vintage Reading was broadcast on C-Span's "About Books" in August 1998.

Where to find Robert Kanigel online

Books

Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 59,750. Language: English. Published: July 19, 2010 by Bancroft Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics, best-sellers, lesser-known greats, and everything in-between.

Robert Kanigel's tag cloud

a bell for adano    a journal of the plague year    a mathematicians apology    a passage to india    a room of ones own    a study in scarlet    aaron copland    abbott    abraham cahan    adam smith    adams    adolf hitler    aldous huxley    alexander hamilton    alexis de tocqueville    alice in wonderland    alices adventures in wonderland    allen    ambrose bierce    an essay on the principle of population    analysis    antoine de saint exupery    arrowsmith    arthur conan doyle    as i lay dying    austen    babylonian    berine    beston    bible    bierce    books    bradbury    bronte    c w ceram    cahan    carroll    cather    ceram    charles darwin    charles dickens    cicero    civilization and its discontents    clark    coming of age in samoa    confessions    copland    daniel defoe    darwin    de kruif    de saint exupery    de tocqueville    death be not proud    defoe    democracy in america    dialogues    dickens    dorothy parker    doyle    duncan    durrell    e m forster    ecclesiastes    edith hamilton    edward gibbon    edwin a abbott    elective affinities    elie wiesel    emile zola    emily bronte    english    essays    faulkner    flatland    flaubert    forster    francis f berine    frederick lewis allen    freeman    freud    gentlemans agreement    george orwell    gibbon    gilgamesh    giorgio vasari    godfrey h hardy    gods graves and scholars    gunther    gustav meyrink    gustave flaubert    h l mencken    h w longfellow    hamilton    hans selye    hardy    henry adams    henry beston    henry james    hergesheimer    herodotus    hersey    hilton    hitler    hobson    homage to catalonia    hurston    huxley    isadora duncan    james    james hilton    james madison    jane austen    java head    jay    johann wolfgang von goethe    john gunther    john hersey    john jay    john reed    john ruskin    joseph hergesheimer    justine    kenneth clark    kim    kipling    laura z hobson    lawrence durrell    lewis    lewis carroll    longfellow    look homeward angel    lost horizon    machiavelli    madame bovary    madison    malthus    margaret mead    mark twain    maugham    mead    mein kampf    mencken    merton    meyrink    microbe hunters    montaigne    mr pottermacks oversight    my antonia    my life    nana    native son    niccolo machiavelli    night    old testament    oliver twist    only yesterday    orwell    parker    paul de kruif    plato    pride and prejudice    r austin freeman    ray bradbury    reed    richard wright    roughing it    rudyard kipling    ruskin    saint augustine    sanskrit    selected works    selye    sigmund freud    sinclair lewis    smith    stories    strunk    tacitus    ten days that shook the world    the american language    the amiable baltimoreans    the annals of imperial rome    the bhagavad gita    the decline and fall of the roman empire    the devils dictionary    the doors of perception    the education of henry adams    the elements of style    the federalist papers    the golem    the greek way    the histories    the little prince    the lives of the most eminent italian architects painters and scholars    the martian chronicles    the nude a study in ideal form    the origin of species    the outermost house    the peloponnesian war    the portrait of a lady    the prince    the razors edge    the rise of david levinsky    the seven lamps of architecture    the seven storey mountain    the song of hiawatha    the stress life    the structure of scientific revolutions    the ten books of architecture    the varieties of religious experience    the wealth of nations    their eyes were watching god    thomas kuhn    thomas malthus    thomas merton    thomas wolfe    thucydides    twain    vasari    virginia woolf    vitruvius    von goeth    w somerset maugham    what to listen for in music    white    wiesel    willa cather    william faulkner    william james    wolfe    wonderland    woolf    wright    wuthering heights    zola    zora neal hurston