Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment. Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book The Beak of the Finch. His other books include Planet Earth, His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine, and Time, Love, Memory. Weiner has taught at Arizona State University and Rockefeller University, and currently teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
