Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier (born February 16, 1958 in the Bronx, New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a former science journalist for The New York Times. She is also noted for her public identification as an atheist and received the Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003.

Early life

Angier was born in the Bronx, She was raised in the Bronx and New Buffalo, Michigan.

Education

Angier began her college studies at age 16 at the University of Michigan. After Discover, she worked as a senior science writer for Time Magazine; as an editor at the women's magazine, Savvy (now defunct); and as a professor at the New York University's Graduate Program in Science and Environmental Reporting.

Philosophical views

Angier first publicly described herself as an atheist in 2001:

This, in part, is why Angier was presented with the Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003.

Personal life

Angier married Rick Weiss on July 27, 1991. Rick Weiss is a former science reporter for The Washington Post. Angier and Weiss live in Takoma Park, Maryland

Awards and honors

Natural Obsessions named AAAS Notable Book of the Year, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 1991 New York Times Bestseller (Nonfiction), 1999: Woman: An Intimate Geography Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award, 2003 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, 2007, for The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science New York Times Bestseller (Nonfiction), 2007: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Finalist, 2008, for The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science Humanist Media Award from the American Humanist Association, 2014 Barnard College Distinguished Alumna Award General Motors International Award for Writing about Cancer Lewis Thomas Award for Distinguished Writing in the Life Sciences Exploratorium Public Understanding of Science Award Voting member of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary

Books

Author: Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell, 1988, 1999 Paperback Contributor: New Science Journalists, 1995, Paperback Author: The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life, 1995, 1996 Paperback Author: Woman: An Intimate Geography, 1999, 2014 Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2000, 2000, Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2001, 2001, Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2002, 2002, Paperback Editor: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, 2002, Paperback Contributor: The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, 2002, Paperback Contributor: When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, 2002, Hardcover Contributor: Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, 2003, Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2003, 2003, Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2005, 2005, Paperback Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2005, 2005, Paperback Contributor: Axelrod & Cooper's Concise Guide to Writing, 4th Edition, 2006, Paperback Author: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2007, Paperback Editor: The Best American Science Writing 2009, 2009, Paperback Author: Woman: An Intimate Geography, Revised and Updated Edition, 2014, Paperback

Articles Author: "Not Milk?" (review of Anne Mendelson, Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood, Columbia University Press, 2023, 396 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 16 (19 October 2023), pp. 36, 38–39. "[Americans'] consumption of cow's milk [...] peak[ed in] 1945, when [they] drank an average of forty-five gallons apiece. By 2001 the nation's per capita milk intake had been cut in half, to twenty-three gallons, and in 2021 the figure was down to just sixteen gallons of milk per person, or 5.6 ounces a day... Leading the... drop-off are members of Generation Z: people born after 1996... Among the eco-conscious, antipathy toward dairy milk is great enough that some high-end coffee shops feel no obligation to offer it at all." (p. 36.)