John Green has named her book One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal as among his favorites.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has called her a “star scholar” and described her writing as “reliably funny and passionate and vulnerable.” Her essay, “Lavish Dwarf Entertainment,” was selected for Norton’s annual Best Creative Non-Fiction volume. The American Philosophical Association calls her a philosopher of note in the “writing” category, and UTNE Reader named her a visionary.ĭreger was the winner of the inaugural Courage Award from the Heterodox Academy. The work received the book-of-the-year award for nonfiction from the Society of Midland Authors.
Galileo’s Middle Finger was named an “Editor’s Choice” by The New York Times Book Review and has been recommended by Steve Pinker, Dan Savage, Jared Diamond, and E.O. Funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship and published by Penguin Press, the book has been praised in reviews in The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Forbes, New York Magazine, Human Nature, and Salon. She has given about two hundred invited lectures, including many keynote addresses.ĭreger’s best known book is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, which argues that the pursuit of evidence is the most important ethical imperative of our time. Her books have been published by Penguin Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Amazon Kindle Singles. She is perpetually drawn to open water, literally and figuratively.ĭreger’s bylines include the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, WIRED, Slate, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, New Statesman, Quillette, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Photograph by Dylan Lees Photography, copyright Alice Dreger 2022.Īlice Dreger, Ph.D., is a writer of books, articles, and essays, a professional historian, a local news publisher, and a highly regarded public speaker.
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