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George Johnson

I am a science writer working from my office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My newest book, A Shortcut Through Time, was published this spring in paperback by Vintage in the United States and Jonathan Cape in Britain. I am also the author of Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. Another book, Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics, was on the shortlist for the 2001 Aventis (formerly Rhone-Poulenc) Science Book Prize. My books have been translated into Italian, German, Portugese, Czech, Japanese, and Korean. (Chinese and Polish editions of A Shortcut Through Time are in the works.) Three of my articles for the Times won the 1999 AAAS Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (large newspaper category) and one is included in The Best American Science Writing 2000, edited by James Gleick. Most of my work appears in the New York Times. I've also written for The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Slate, and Wired. Two of my essays, Worshipping in the Church of Einstein (or How I Found Fischbeck's Rule) and On the Trail of the Illuminati: A Journalist's Search for 'The Conspiracy That Rules the World,' are published in the anthology Secrets of Angels and Demons, edited by Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer. My next book, Miss Leavitt's Stars, will appear in 2005.

I keep a list of my favorite articles, some of which are on the Web. You can also see my resume and a brief biographical sketch (with a picture of my high school garage band and a letter from Richard Nixon). I record my observations about Santa Fe politics in my online journal, The Santa Fe Review. And I've posted information about the Santa Fe Science-Writing Workshop. A RealAudio recording of my discussion with John Horgan on NPR's Science Friday is available on the Web, as are my Slate dialogues with Matt Ridley on the Human Genome Project and Robert Wright on The Quantum Computing Revolution.

The best way to reach me is by email.