Gina Kolata
Gina Bari Kolata (born February 25, 1948) is an American science journalist, writing for The New York Times.
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[edit] Life and career
Kolata was born Gina Bari in Baltimore, Maryland. Her sister was environmental activist Judi Bari, and her mother was mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari. Her father was of Italian descent and her mother was Jewish.[1]
Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. She joined Science magazine as a copy editor in 1973, and wrote for the American Association for the Advancement of Science journal from 1974 until she moved to The New York Times in September 1987.[2] She is a "self-proclaimed exercise addict (who thinks nothing of a 100-mile bike ride as a reward)" according to a Times advertisement for itself.[3]
Kolata's book, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, was chosen for the inaugural year of Washington State University's Common Reading Program, in 2007-08.
[edit] Books
- Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead, ISBN 0-688-16634-2
- Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, ISBN 0-7432-0398-4
- Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, ISBN 0-316-07524-8 (out of print)
- The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine, ISBN 0-440-21011-9 (out of print)
- Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise, ISBN 0-374-20477-2
- Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss - and the myths and realities of dieting. Picador. 2007. ISBN 0-312-42785-9.
[edit] Other publications
- Kolata, Gina Bari. Water Structure and Ion Binding: A Role in Cell Physiology, Science, 192 (4254), June 18, 1976, pp. 1220-1222.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.northcoastjournal.com/jan97/1-97.people.html
- ^ SourceWatch. Gina Kolata.
- ^ Advertising supplement (with no title, but part of the "These Times Demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the supplement's back page) to The New York Times, October 31, 2006, page ZK7 of the supplement
[edit] External links
- Recent and archived news articles by Gina Kolata of The New York Times.
- Sourcewatch article on Gina Kolata
- Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata, Official Book site
- Booknotes interview with Kolata on Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It, February 27, 2000.
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