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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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Director, Graduate Program
Professor of Science Writing
Author of Faux Real, on leather and its
imitators; High Season, popular history of
French Riviera tourism; The Man Who Knew
Infinity, biography of mathematician Ramanujan;
The One Best Way, biography of efficiency
expert Frederick Winslow Taylor; Apprentice to
Genius, about mentor relationships among elite
scientists. Articles in New York Times Magazine,
Wilson Quarterly, The Sciences. Grady-Stack
award for science writing. Finalist, National Book Critics
Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award. Recipient, John
Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
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