Dan Fagin | |
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 Fagin at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | (1963-02-01)February 1, 1963 (age 62) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Occupation | Environmental journalist,New York University journalism professor |
| Education | Dartmouth College |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2014) |
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Dan Fagin (born February 1, 1963) is an American journalist who specializes inenvironmental science. He won the 2014Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling bookToms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.[1][2]Toms River also won theHelen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, theNational Academies Communication Award, and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award of theSociety of Environmental Journalists, among other literary prizes.[3][4][5]
Fagin was born inOklahoma City and attended high school atBishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author,Blake Bailey.[6] Fagin graduated in 1985 fromDartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief ofThe Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper).
From 1991-2005, Fagin was the environmental writer atNewsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for thePulitzer Prize. Fagin is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2003, his stories about cancer epidemiology won the Science Journalism Award of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science,[7] and also won theScience-in-Society Award of theNational Association of Science Writers.[8]
Fagin is a Professor of Journalism at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute atNew York University,[9] and the director of the NYU Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.[10] He is also the founder and director of the NYU Science Communication Workshops.[10] His bookToms River: A Story of Science and Salvation was published March 19, 2013. In a review, Abigail Zuger in theNew York Times called it "a new classic of science reporting."[11] He is also the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of the bookToxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health (1997). Fagin is currently working on a book about monarch butterflies and the future of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
He is married to Alison Frankel, a senior legal writer at Thomson-Reuters; they have two children and live inSea Cliff, NY.[6]
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