Ed Yong

Author

Ed Yong is a British science journalist whose writing about biology and the natural world has won him a Pulitzer Prize and a global readership. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, he studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Molecular Biology at Imperial College London. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic. An... Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us explores the concept of Umwelten — the unique sensory worlds that different animals inhabit — from the echolocation of bats to the electric fields sensed by sharks to colours invisible to the human eye. The book won the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and was a number one New York Times bestseller. His previous book, I Contain Multitudes, explored the human microbiome. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2021 for his COVID-19 coverage. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers science writing of the highest calibre — books that make you see the natural world as if for the first time, revealing wonders that were always there but invisible to human senses. Read more Show less