About Mara Hvistendahl
Born 2000. Mara Hvistendahl is an American journalist and non-fiction writer.
Hvistendahl speaks at the New America Foundation in February 2020. Mara Hvistendahl is an American writer. Her book Unnatural Selection was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
She graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Columbia University in New York City. She is former contributor for Science magazine. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, The Intercept and Foreign Policy. Works
And The City Swallowed Them, Deca The Scientist and The Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage. New York: Riverhead, 2020.
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Who is Mara Hvistendahl?
American journalist
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Mara Hvistendahl was born in 2000 in Minnesota.
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