American journalist

Dan *in (born February 1, 1963) is an American journalist who specializes in environmental science. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Toms River also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Academies Communication Award, and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award of the Society of Environmental Journalists, among other literary prizes.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

*in was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey. *in graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth (the college's daily newspaper).

Career

From 1991-2005, *in was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. *in is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In 2003, his stories about cancer epidemiology won the Science Journalism Award of the American *ociation for the Advancement of Science, and also won the Science-in-Society Award of the National *ociation of Science Writers.

*in is a Professor of Journalism at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Ins*ute at New York University, and the director of the NYU Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. He is also the founder and director of the NYU Science Communication Workshops. His book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation was published March 19, 2013. In a review, Abigail Zuger in the New York Times called it "a new cl*ic of science reporting." He is also the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of the book Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health (1997). *in is currently working on a book about monarch butterflies and the future of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.

Personal life

He is married to Alison Frankel, a senior legal writer at Thomson-Reuters; they have two children and live in Sea Cliff, NY.

References

External links

• Dan *in, official website
• New York Times op-ed by *in about parallels between chemical industry practices in Basel (starting in the 1860s), Cincinnati, Toms River and now China.
• New York Times op-ed by *in about a trip to Basel and outsourcing of toxic manufacturing practices.
• Scientific American story by *in about molecular epidemiology research in China.
• NPR interview with *in and other journalists about the state of environmental reporting.
• Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University
• Appearances on C-SPAN