Howard Markel

Over the past forty years, Howard Markel has practiced pediatrics and taught medical history at Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan. He is the award-winning author or editor of many books, including his most recent history of DNA, The Secret of Life. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Guggenheim fellow. His work has appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.