Lauren Redniss
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Lauren Redniss is the author of three works of visual nonfiction. Her most recent book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather, Past, Present, Future, won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She is the recipient of a “Genius Grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation.