Dan Fagin

Dan Fagin

Fagin at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born (1963-02-01)February 1, 1963
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Occupation Environmental journalist, New York University journalism professor
Nationality United States
Education Dartmouth College
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2014)
Website
danfagin.com

Dan Fagin is an American journalist who specializes in environmental health issues. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.[1][2] Toms River also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the National Academies Communication Award, among other literary prizes.[3][4]

Early life

Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey.[5] Fagin graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper).

Career

For fourteen years, Fagin was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer 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 the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[6] and also won the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers.[7]

Since 2005, Fagin has been an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute[8] at New York University and the director of the NYU Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.[9] His book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation was published March 19, 2013. In a review, Abigail Zuger in the New York Times called it "a new classic of science reporting."[10] He is also the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of the book Toxic 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.

Personal life

He is married to Alison Frankel, a senior legal writer at Reuters; they have two children and live in Sea Cliff, NY.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction". Pulitzer Prize. April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ Russ Zimmer (April 14, 2014). "Author of 'Toms River' wins Pulitzer". APP. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Journalist Dan Fagin Wins the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence In Journalism For "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation"". May 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Wins Best Book Award From National Academies; NPR, New York Times, and Seattle Times Also Take Top Prizes". September 9, 2014.
  5. 1 2 Ken, Raymond (April 20, 2014). "Oklahoma City native Dan Fagin wins Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  6. ↑ "2003 AAAS Science Journalism Awards Recipients Named". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 25 November 2003. Archived from the original on December 28, 2003. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Richard L Hill (2004). "NASW Awards Laud Critical, Probing Writing". National Association of Science Writers. Archived from the original on September 23, 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
  8. ↑ Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
  9. ↑ Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, NYU
  10. ↑ Zuger, Abigail (18 March 2013). "On the Trail of Cancer". The New York Times.

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