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Richard Panek is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the author of The Invisible Century and Seeing and Believing. He has frequently written for the New York Times, Discover, and Esquire, among many other publications. He and his wife, the novelist Meg Wolitzer, live in New York.
Richard Panek