Joel Shurkin

Contributor
Joel Shurkin, photo by Abigail Dunlap

Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer in Baltimore. He is a former science writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island. He has nine published books and is working on a tenth. He has taught journalism at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. 

Joel Shurkin

Contributor
Joel Shurkin, photo by Abigail Dunlap

Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer in Baltimore. He is a former science writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island. He has nine published books and is working on a tenth. He has taught journalism at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.