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Lydia Denworth

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Lydia Denworth is a Brooklyn-based science journalist whose work is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A contributing writer for Scientific American and Psychology Today, she has also written for the Atlantic and the New York Times.

Lydia Denworth has always been a reader and a lover of words. As a child, her favorite way to spend the day was lying on her bed with a book. She still loves that, though she gets to do it far less often. Lydia got hooked on the New Yorker and John McPhee in high school. She loved how McPhee could take almost anything and show you why it was interesting. Perhaps because of that, she only ever wanted to write non-fiction.

Halfway through her career, after working in news magazines and freelancing for women’s magazines, Lydia gravitated to writing primarily about science. No one was more surprised than I was! She had always been more interested in history (my major), literature, politics, languages—pretty much anything but biology and chemistry. But a switch got flipped along the way. Pulled by her interest in health and the environment, she felt compelled to dig into science. It mattered. And it affected her and her family.

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