Charles C. Mann | |
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 Charles C. Mann in 2011 | |
| Born | 1955 (age 68–69) United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
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Charles C. Mann (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics. In 2006 his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. He is the co-author of four books, and contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired.
Mann was born in 1955 and graduated from Amherst College in 1976.[1][2] Mann has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post.[3] In 2005 he wrote 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, followed in 2011 by 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.[4] He served as a judge for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012.[5] He has also written for the TV series Law & Order.[6]
He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.[3] He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife and children.[7]
In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment.[8][9] The titular "wizard" Mann refers to is Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner credited with developing the Green Revolution and saving one billion people from starvation.[10] Mann refers to William Vogt, an early proponent of population control, as the "prophet".[11]
