Rich, Nathaniel: - Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, which received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayors Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harpers, and The New York Review of Books. Rich lives in New Orleans.