Robin Marantz Henig

Robin Marantz Henig is a freelance science journalist and author. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and she has taught journalism at New York University. Henig has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Science in Society awards, and a career achievement award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Her books include The Myth of Senility, A Dancing Matrix, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, and Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution. She co-authored Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self with psychologist David M. Brodzinsky and physician Marshall D. Schechter.