Books by Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is a bestselling science writer. She is author of Longitude, which won the 1997 British Book of the Year award, and of biographies of both Copernicus and Galileo. Sobel has also written for The New York Times, Science Digest, Discover and The New Yorker
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
🏆 Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
“What Dava did utterly brilliantly was ostensibly to wrote a book about Galileo’s relationship with his daughter but actually it reveals a lot about Galileo and science along the way. This story doesn’t show the greatest side of Galileo because Galileo put his two daughters into a convent, essentially because he couldn’t find husbands for them. And the reason he couldn’t find husbands for them was because he was a fairly poor astronomer, with expectations of grandeur, if you like, and he couldn’t raise a dowry sufficient to attract the kind of men he thought his daughters should be married to, which would lead to the correct social standing for his family.” Read more...
Stuart Clark, Novelist
Interviews with Dava Sobel
The best books on The Early History of Astronomy, recommended by Dava Sobel
Best-selling science writer, Dava Sobel, recommends books about the men whose painstaking work changed our understanding of Earth’s place in the universe.
Interviews where books by Dava Sobel were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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King: A Life
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
The best books on Astronomers, recommended by Stuart Clark
Can’t tell your nebula from your black hole? The New Scientist writer introduces us to some of the wonders of the universe and tells the stories of astronomers who discovered them
