Richard Panek

Richard Panek is the author of numerous books including "The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality," which won the American Institute of Physics communication award and was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (in Science Writing) and the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Antarctic Artists and Writers grant from the National Science Foundation, he is also the co-author with "Temple Grandin of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum," a New York Times bestseller. His own books have been translated into sixteen languages, and his writing about science and culture has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, Esquire, and Outside. He lives in New York City.