Authors Series
• Registration

Monday, September 18, 2006
7 p.m.

David Quammen
Discusses His New Book

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

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• Free and open to the public

• Registration required: Call Marion Wyce at 215-898-3943, or email wyce@wistar.org

• Book signing to follow

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

Charles Darwin nursed his ideas about the evolution of species in private for years, detailing his observations and experiments only in his notebooks. Deeply conflicted, Darwin struggled for decades with the question of whether to publish his work, aware of the controversy the findings would cause. In The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, award-winning journalist David Quammen tells the fascinating story of what caused Darwin to keep his ideas to himself for so long—and what finally pushed him to write his earth-shaking manuscript.

About the Author:
David Quammen, the author of The Song of the Dodo and Monster of God, is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award, most recently for a National Geographic story on Darwin. He has also written for Harper’s, Rolling Stone and The New York Times Book Review. He wrote a column called “Natural Acts” for Outside magazine for fifteen years, for which he won two National Magazine Awards. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana.