Author

Books by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at UCLA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He trained as a physiologist and ornithologist and has conducted field research in New Guinea for more than fifty years. His other books include The Third Chimpanzee, Why Is Sex Fun?, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and The World Until Yesterday. Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1998 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Diamond is known for synthesizing findings across evolutionary biology, anthropology, ecology, and history into accessible, large-scale arguments.