Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods

Jeff Wheelwright is the former science editor of Life magazine and the author of three books, including The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War (2001)&nbsp;and The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA (2012). The latter was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is presently at work on&nbsp;a book about Herman Melville in the Holy Land, for which he is seeking a publisher.

Jeff Wheelwright

Is Stealing Redwoods Sometimes Okay?: On Lyndsie Bourgon’s “Tree Thieves”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

Mystery Illnesses Writ Large

Jeff Wheelwright is the former science editor of Life magazine and the author of three books, including The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War (2001)&nbsp;and The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA (2012). The latter was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is presently at work on&nbsp;a book about Herman Melville in the Holy Land, for which he is seeking a publisher.