Dear Visiting Class:
Bruce Western has invited journalist Gareth Cook to join us for a special guest Tuesday Seminar, April 14. It will be in the library and on Zoom from 11:00-12:30 per usual. We hope you all can join us then.
Gareth Cook is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and founder of Verto Literary Group, a small editorial studio that helps writers develop serious nonfiction books for broad audiences.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, where he was a contributing writer, as well as NewYorker.com, The New York Times Book Review, Wired, Scientific American, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Monthly, and the Boston Globe Ideas section.
Cook began his career in Washington, DC with writing and editing jobs at The Washington Monthly, Foreign Policy, and U.S. News & World Report. In 1996 he moved to Boston to become the news editor of The Boston Phoenix and then, in 1999, joined the Boston Globe. He was one of the founders of the Globe’s Sunday Ideas section and then served as its editor from 2007 to 2011. He was the Globe’s science reporter for seven years, and also worked as an editor on the city desk.
In 2005, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “explaining, with clarity and humanity, the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.” He has also won the National Academies Communications Award and the Wood’s Hole Ocean Science Journalism Award. His writing has appeared in Best American Science and Nature Writing (2008 & 2013), The Human Face of Big Data, and A Field Guide for Science Writers. He has appeared on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” “Science Friday,” “On Point with Tom Ashbrook,” and WBUR’s “Here and Now.” He has also served the editor of Scientific American’s Mind Matters psychology blog, and as the series editor of The Best American Infographics.
Cook graduated from Brown University in 1991 with degrees in International Relations and Mathematical Physics.