Robert Kanigel

Robert Kanigel is the author of nine previous books, most recently "Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry." His "Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs" was long-listed for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction and named an NPR best book of the year. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, the Grady-Stack Award for science writing and, for his Milman Parry biography, a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book "The Man Who Knew Infinity" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named a New York Public Library "Book to Remember"; it has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. .Kanigel and his wife, the poet S. B. Merrow, live in Baltimore. His first memoir, "Young Man, Muddled," was published in late 2022. [robertkanigel.com]