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An Evening with Ed Yong
Join the Council Bluffs Public Library for "An Evening with Ed yong" on December 12, 2024 at 7 p.m. at
The Arts Center @ IWCC.
Ed Yong is a British-American science journalist, a Pulitzer winner, and the author of two bestselling
books. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism; the
George Polk Award for science reporting; the Benton Award for distinguished public service; the Victor
Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism;
the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association; and the AAAS Kavli
Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. He was also a two-time finalist for the National
Magazine Award in public service, and was described as “the most important and impactful journalist of
2020” by Poynter.
He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: AN IMMENSE WORLD, about the extraordinary
sensory worlds of other animals; and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, about the amazing partnerships between
animals and microbes. An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the
Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize; it was also a finalist for four other major awards, and was
ranked as one of the top books of the year by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street
Journal, Slate, the Economist, People, Barack Obama, and more than 30 other lists.
Ed was a staff writer at the Atlantic from 2015 to 2023. Prior to that, his writing also featured in National
Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, the New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and
other publications.
He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched
by over 1.9 million people. His work has appeared in three editions of the Best American Science and
Nature Writing anthology, which he then guest-edited in 2021. He was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 2024.
Each lecture in the Speaker Series will include an author talk and a book signing, with books available for
purchase by the Bookworm. Tickets are $10 per speaker with a small convenience fee at the box office.
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