Michelle Nijhuis is a project editor at the Atlantic, a contributing editor at High Country News, and an award-winning reporter whose work has been published in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is coeditor of The Science Writers’ Handbook and lives in White Salmon, Washington.
"""A definitive and informative history… Nijhuis’s detailed account is clear-eyed and unvarnished in its honesty."" -- Valerie Thompson - Science ""Michelle Nijhuis has written a book that is both a beautiful, wise history and a measured call to action."" -- Florence Williams"