DAVID EWING DUNCAN is the author of nine books, including the international bestseller Calendar, and writes for Wired, Discover, and the Atlantic Monthly. He is a freelance producer and correspondent for ABC's Nightline, and a commentator on NPR's Journalist, author and researcher David Ewing Duncan has covered the intersection of technology and humanity for Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Atlantic, Fortune, NPR, ABC News and many others. He is the author of nine books, which have been translated into over twenty languages, including the international bestseller The Calendar, and Experimental Man. In 2003, he won the Magazine Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco, California and Boston, Massachusetts. www.davidewingduncan.com
Praise for Calendar: Calendar sparkles. Gripping, expansive and scholarly, it will be indispensable reading for years to come. Duncan has achieved a rare feat in turning something ordinary into an extraordinary metaphor of life. - Observer Praise for Calendar: As the new millennium approaches, this fine book will prove to all readers that the establishment of a consistent and useful calendar is no dull work of drones and bean counters, but one of humanity's greatest achievements and the embodiment of our culture, history and progress. Praise for Calendar: Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed he is a popularizer and storyteller. - USA Today Editor s Pick