Author

Books by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley is a British science writer, author, and hereditary peer in the House of Lords. He trained as a zoologist at Oxford and spent years as a science journalist before turning to popular non-fiction. His books include Genome, The Red Queen, Nature via Nurture, and The Evolution of Everything, all examining how evolutionary and market processes shape biological and cultural change. He served as chairman of Northern Rock, the British mortgage bank, during its 2007 failure and subsequent nationalization. He writes a regular column in The Times of London and is a vocal advocate for technological optimism and free markets.