Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer has 3 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 2008 and 2022. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (2018), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology for Microcosm: E.Coli and the New Science of Life (2008), and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (2022).
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Award-Listed Books by Carl Zimmer
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- ShortlistedPEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2019)
- ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2018)Major


Nominated Alongside Carl Zimmer
- 1Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein15 score
- 2Serhii Plokhy12 score
- 3Stephen R. Platt12 score
- 4Leonard Susskind8 score
- 5Ben Goldfarb7 score
- 6Catherine Raven5 score
- 7Lauren Slater5 score
Most Prolific Authors
- 1Jill Lepore7 books
- 2John McPhee7 books
- 3Adam Hochschild5 books
- 4Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.5 books
- 5David Levering Lewis5 books
- 6Deirdre Bair5 books
- 7Garry Wills5 books
- 8George F. Kennan5 books
- 9Greg Grandin5 books
- 10Peter Gay5 books