About the author
Jason Roberts is an American writer whose nonfiction has combined biography, scientific history, and stories of ambitious inquiry. Before writing full time, he worked in technology and journalism.
Every Living Thing is a dual biography of Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon. Their rivalry lets Roberts explain why naming life and explaining its change became related but competing scientific projects.
Where to start
Start with Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life for an eighteenth-century scientific rivalry whose categories still shape biology.
