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Matthew J. Davenport
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In an effort to tell of the American experience in the First World War, Matthew Davenport has dug through archives and family collections coast to coast to consult the letters, diaries, reports, and memoirs of the doughboys who served at the front. His book, "First Over There," which tells the story of the first American victory in the trenches of the Western Front, was a finalist for the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History and has been heralded by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian James McPherson as "military history at its best."
Matthew Davenport served in the US Army...
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Ed Yong
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Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports for The Atlantic. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, the New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and more. He talked about mind-controlling parasites at the TED2014 conference, and his talk has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
He is the winner of the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences (2016) , the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award (2016) , a National Academies Keck Science Communication Award (2010) and awards from the Association...
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