Siddhartha Mukherjee Traces the History of Genetics, Jill Lepore Solves a 50-Year-Old Mystery

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 13, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics and heredity in his new book The Gene: An Intimate History. Former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Mazorati details his journey to compete on the national circuit as age 60 in Late to the Ball. New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore embarked on a quest to uncover the truth behind the eccentric modernist writer Joe Gould in her new book Joe Gould's Teeth. 

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