Jared Diamond
Author · 22 books
Jared Diamond (born 1937 in Boston) is an American scholar and author. He held a professorship in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, and focused primarily on evolutionary biology. His research included leading about a dozen expeditions to remote regions of New Guinea. His best-known books include *The Third Chimpanzee*, *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, *Why Is Sex Fun?*, *Collapse*, *The World Until Yesterday*, and *Upheaval* (2019). His work in anthropology and genetics received several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998), the Lannan Literary Award (1999), the Dickson Prize for Science (2006), and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2013).