nSam Kean is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bastard Brigade, Caesars Last Breath (the Guardians Science Book of the Year), The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, The Violinists Thumb, and The Disappearing Spoon. He is also a two-time finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. n nHis work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and he has been featured on NPRs Radiolab, All Things Considered, Science Friday, and Fresh Air. His podcast, The Disappearing Spoon, debuted at #1 on the iTunes science charts. Kean lives in Washington DC.n