Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and an internationally bestselling author. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize. His second book, An Immense World, won the Royal Society Science Book Prize and was a Sunday Times andNew York Times bestseller. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk award in 2021 for his coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, National Geographic, New Yorker and Wired, among others. He also regularly gives talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.9 million people.
He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Liz Neeley, founder of Liminal Creations, and his corgi, Typo. He is almost certainly looking at birds right now.
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