Authors / person-david-quammen

David Quammen

American science author.

Wikipedia

Portrait source · Wikimedia Commons

Recognized books

Wins

Lists

Index score

1996—2023

Recognition span

Author in the index

David Quammen has 4 books in the current index, recognized by prize programs between 1996 and 2023. The records span 5 leading prize families shown here.

Top recognition

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence1

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism1

John Burroughs Medal1

Los Angeles Times Book Prize1

National Book Awards1

Subject profile

Nature & Environment2

Medicine & Public Health1

Science1

Indexed works

Books by David Quammen

4 books · sorted by recognition

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ExtinctionsNature & Environment—12 pts Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly VirusMedicine & Public Health20228 pts Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicScience20128 pts The Boilerplate RhinoNature & Environment20004 pts

Year	Title	Subject	Score	Wins	Lists	Imprint
—	The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions	Nature & Environment	12	2	3	Scribner
2022	Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus	Medicine & Public Health	8	0	2	Simon & Schuster
2012	Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic	Science	8	0	2	W. W. Norton
2000	The Boilerplate Rhino	Nature & Environment	4	1	1	Scribner

Prize metrics come from Book Prize Index records. Biographical description and portrait metadata are sourced from the matched Wikidata and Wikimedia records; uncertain identity matches are omitted.

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