Author
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist and author. Born in Malaysia and raised in the United Kingdom, he studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and biochemistry at University College London. His writing has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, and The New Yorker.
Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. His reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic earned him the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and a George Polk Award. An Immense World won the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
