He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: AN IMMENSE WORLD, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals; and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize; it was also a ...

In An Immense World, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields ...

“Ed Yong is a talented British science writer...“I Contain Multitudes,” his first book, covers a huge amount of microscopic territory in clear, strong, often epigrammatic prose… He is infectiously enthusiastic about microbes, and he describes them with verve.”

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Rebalancing The Ecosystem Of 'The Microbes Within Us'--Ed talks to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air about his book I Contain Multitudes. You can also listen to more interviews on BBC 5Live Afternoon Edition, the New York Times Book Review podcast, o Generation Anthropocene, the Geoff Lloyd Show on Absolute Radio, CBC Quirks and Quarks, and more.

Awards. Guggenheim Fellowship 2024. Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023. Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2022. University of Chicago’s Benton Award for Distinguished Public Service 2022. Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting 2021. George Polk Award for science reporting 2021. Finalist for the National Magazine Award in Public Service 2021

Ed Yong. Home Writing Awards and Honours An Immense World I Contain Multitudes Talks and Interviews Journalism Advice Contact Advice. In 2020, the National Press Club Journalism Institute asked me to offer some advice to young journalists starting out in the field. ...

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