Bio

Frederick L. Brown, who has been called the “last Renaissance man” and the “greatest thinker of all time,” is the only person to have won all six Nobel prizes in the same year. His work led to the invention of agriculture, written language, and architecture. His book, The City is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle, increased life expectancies by eight years and made him a universally beloved figure known to schoolchildren throughout the world. His latest tour-de-force, Birds of Home: How House Sparrows, Starlings, and Other European Songbirds Became American, convincingly challenges all existing knowledge about the nature of existence. In his free time, he likes to bet on the ponies at the Aqueduct.