I was delighted to learn that three of my columns about cancer have won the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advance of Science:
Translation rights have been sold in Polish, Bulgarian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified and complex), Arabic, and Korean.
Robin McKie, in The Guardian and Nicholas Blinco in The Telegraph (who appears to have overlooked the final sentence of my first chapter, leading him to a strange and misleading conclusion.)
A review in Science by Mary L. Disis.
“A fascinating compilation of selected discoveries in cancer research. . . The author has deftly organized and presented vast amounts of scientific information so that they support the personal chronicle; every example seems to fit. In addition, the book is artfully written. Throughout it, Johnson’s use of metaphor provides novel descriptions that are interesting to any reader, whether seasoned in the science of cancer or a novice. . . . The book succeeds because Johnson’s writing conveys his passion about the science.”
From New Zealand, a cover story about The Cancer Chronicles in this week’s Listener by Mark Broatch.
Reviewed in TLS, the Times Literary Supplement (London) by Almut Schulze.
“A highly captivating book that meticulously explains the current scientific understanding of cancer. . . . In The Cancer Chronicles, George Johnson has captured the sense of curiosity and empathy that drives scientists to tackle this calamitous disease.”
From India: A review of my book and an interview by Priyanka Pulla in Open Magazine
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An excerpt from The Cancer Chronicles in this month’s Scientific American.
“Why Most of What You’ve Heard About Cancer Is Wrong” — an interview by Indre Viskontas on Inquiring Minds.
I’ll be in Houston this evening to talk about my book at the Brazos Bookstore and tomorrow evening in Philadelphia at the Wistar Institute.
