Author

Books by Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann is an American science journalist who writes for The Atlantic, Wired, and Science, among other publications. His books include 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, and The Wizard and the Prophet, which contrasts two twentieth-century visions of humanity's environmental future. He has received the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award and has been a National Book Award finalist. His strength is synthesizing specialist scholarship from multiple disciplines — biology, archaeology, economics, history — into narrative accessible to general readers.