Breasts

‘Florence Williams’s double-D talents as a reporter and writer lift this book high above the genre and separate it from theranks of ordinary science writing. Breasts is illuminating, surprising, clever, important. Williams is an author to savour and look forward to.’ – Mary Roach
‘Breasts is less a primer on anatomy than a catalog of environmental devastation akin to Rachel Carson’s 1962 classic Silent Spring, which detailed the impact of industrial chemicals—notably, the pesticide DDT—on animal life. But Williams, who cites Carson as an inspiration, has written a far scarier book. Carson examined birds and fish. Williams looks at us.’ * New York Times *

Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New Republic and numerous other publications. Her work often focuses on the environment, health and science. In 2007-08, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the John Hersey Prize at Yale. Her work has been anthologised in numerous books, including Outside 25, The New Montana Story, How the West Was Warmed and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. She lives with her family in the Rocky Mountains. Breasts is her first book.

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