The author of a weblog
The author of a weblog I've been keeping up with for a long time -- Rabi, of wockerjabby -- posted today about her father's new book.
I went and perused the website for a while, and found her father's bio:
The author of The Mapmaker's Wife, Robert Whitaker, has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science. In the past few years, he has won the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article (which appeared in Fortune). In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.His first book, Mad in America, was named by Discover Magazine as one of the best science books of 2002; the American Library Association named it one of the best history books of that year.
When I step back and take a look at my weblog-reading self, I always kind of laugh, because it's like, why do I spend so much time and derive so much pleasure from reading what these perfect strangers have to say? So when a connection is made between a weblog I enjoy and something tangible and real, like this -- an author that I could have very well read about in the issues of Discover I get every month, a book that I can (and will, perhaps) actually buy at my local bookstore -- it never ceases to amaze and delight me.