Marc Zimmer
Dianne Zimmer
Marc Zimmer is the author of several nonfiction young adult books and a professor at Connecticut College, where he teaches chemistry and studies the proteins involved in producing light in jellyfish and fireflies. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and did his post-doc at Yale University. He has published articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Huffington Post, among many other publications. He lives in Waterford, Connecticut, with his wife, their two children, and a genetically modified fluorescent mouse named Prometheus.
Interview
What was your favorite book when you were a child?
Any books by Enid Blyton.
What’s your favorite line from a book?
In 1926 J. B. S. Haldane wrote an essay titled “On Being the Right Size.” Drop a mouse from a building, he writes, and it survives, whereas “a rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”
Who are your top three favorite authors or illustrators?
Sam Kean and Ed Yong—two science writers
Why did you want to become an author or illustrator?
I enjoy talking and writing about science, especially science connected to my research.
