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Rachel Pastan’s novel, In
the Field, based on the life of
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, won the inaugural Science +
Literature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022. She has also
published three other novels: Alena, Lady
of the Snakes, and This Side of Married. She is the literary director of Celia
Bookshop in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and former chair of Swarthmore’s housing
affordability task force.
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