Every Living Thing (Roberts book)

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Author Jason Roberts
GenreBiography
Publisher Random House
Publication date
9 April 2024
Pages432
ISBN 9781984855206

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life is a 2024 book by Jason Roberts. The book is a biography of 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, known as the founding father of taxonomy, and his fellow naturalist the Comte de Buffon. [1] [2] [3] [4] The book was the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. [5]

Awards

Awards for Every Living Thing
YearAwardResultRef.
2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Won [5]
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Won [6]

References

  1. ↑ Blum, Deborah (8 April 2024). "The Two Men Who Wanted to Categorize 'Every Living Thing' on Earth". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Dirda, Michael (2 May 2024). "For better and worse, two 18th-century scientists shaped how we see nature". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  3. ↑ Radick, Gregory (10 May 2024). "The rival eighteenth-century naturalists who paved the way for Darwin". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  4. ↑ Green, Dominic (5 April 2024). "'Every Living Thing' Review: Before Darwin Came Linnaeus". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  5. 1 2 Alter, Alexandra; Khatib, Joumana; Cowles, Gregory (5 May 2025). "Pulitzer Prizes 2025: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Announcing the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. 9 May 2025. Retrieved 10 May 2025.


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