You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter Isaacson, out now with another magnificent tome, ...

When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, they became only the sixth and seventh women to do so; the first being Marie Curie in 1911. The Nobel ...

Mark Gordon Pictures nabbed the screen rights to Walter Isaacson's 'The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,' a book about Nobel Prize-winning gene editing ...

"The Code Breaker" (Simon & Schuster), the latest book from Walter Isaacson, bestselling biographer of geniuses from Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, tells ...

The path to Walter Isaacson’s latest book began when he was 16 years old. That was when his father gave him a copy of “The Double Helix,” James Watson’s account of his team’s discovery of the ...

As Walter Isaacson worked on his new book, “The Code Breaker,” it took on an increasing ripped-from-the-headlines feel. “While I was reporting the book, a Chinese doctor produced the first designer ...

The renowned biographer's new book profiles one of the two women who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their role in discovering CRISPR gene editing. You may know Walter Isaacson from his ...

In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” STAT’s Patrick Skerrett talks with journalist, historian, and author Walter Isaacson about his First Opinion, “CRISPR rivals put patents aside to ...

FINE PRINT Voracious bibliophiles have a funny habit of grazing the fine print — dedication, epigraph and acknowledgments — before tucking into the main course of a book. For many readers, these pages ...

In the 1930s, Elizebeth Friedman graced the covers of newspapers and was profiled by Reader’s Digest. She was a tireless and talented code breaker who brought down gangsters and Nazi spies. But after ...