The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank,
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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Plotz, author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank published by Random House.
David Plotz
David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate, where he has worked since it launched in 1996. At Slate, he's been a feature writer, political columnist, media columnist, and gofer, among lots of different jobs.
He has also freelanced for many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Rolling Stone, New Republic, Washington Post, and GQ. He won the National Press Club's Hume Award for Political Reporting in 2000 for a Harper's article about South Carolina's gambling industry. That piece was also a National Magazine Award Finalist. He won an Online Journalism Award in 2002 for a Slate piece on Enron, and was an OJA finalist for the Seed series in 2001.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a degree in Social Studies. He is married to Hanna Rosin, a reporter for the Washington Post. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two children. Visit his website
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