Authors Series
• Registration

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
7 p.m.

Jeffrey Kluger
Discusses His New Book

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio

• Free and Open to the Public— Registration Required
Call Marion Wyce at 215-898-3943 or email wyce@wistar.org.

• Book signing to Follow

Five decades after the first mass polio vaccinations, it is hard to imagine the terror that the disease once created. In its wake, polio left behind thousands of permanently disabled young bodies, fearful communities, and a nation desperate to do whatever it took to vanquish this cruel sickness. Jeffrey Kluger—the coauthor of the number-one New York Times bestseller that was the basis for the movie Apollo 13 —blends biography, science, and history as he recounts the story of one of the major medical triumphs of the twentieth century in SPLENDID SOLUTION: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio.

About the Author:
Jeffrey Kluger is a senior writer at Time, and a former contributing editor and columnist for Discover magazine. He is the coauthor with Jim Lovell of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13. He is also the sole author of Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System. Kluger has also contributed to a number of other publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, New York magazine, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, McCalls, GQ, and Science Digest.

The Joseph Fox Bookshop will provide books for sale at the event.