Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Name: Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
ISBN: 9780393881363

by Joseph Osmundson

National Book · 2022 · Shortlist

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W. W. NortonMay 17, 2022Nonfiction Science & NatureISBN 9780393881363

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2022	Shortlist

About This Book

Joseph Osmundson, a molecular biologist, writes about viruses, queerness, grief, and the politics of public health in a collection that braids scientific literacy with personal memoir. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Joseph OsmundsonAmerican

Joseph Osmundson (born 1983) is an American scientist, writer, and queer health advocate known for his essays exploring viruses, queerness, race, and geography, with notable works including Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (2022, W.W. Norton, finalist for Lambda Literary Award and National Book Critics Circle Award), Capsid: A Love Song (2016, winner of POZ Award for best HIV writing and Lambda Literary Award finalist), and INSIDE/OUT (2018). A Clinical Associate Professor of Biology at NYU with a PhD from Rockefeller University, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and he was named to the TIME Next 100 list in 2022 for mpox vaccine efforts. Read more →