In pursuit of her stories, science writer Faye Flam had weathered storms in Greenland, gotten frost-nip at the South Pole and floated weightless aboard NASA’s zero-g plane.
She is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, and started her writing career with the science and technology section of The Economist. She later took on the particle physics and cosmology beat at Science Magazine. In 1995 she became a general science writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she’s written on everything from Antarctic melting to the genetics of cancer to nuclear proliferation to the influence of politics on science. In 2005 she started a controversial column, “Carnal Knowledge,” which was syndicated in a handful of newspapers around the country. In her effort to examine sex from novel angles, she delves into anthropology, genetics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology and even botany. The column was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2006.
Her book, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Shaped the Modern Man will be published by Penguin on June 12.

When she’s not studying males or writing, she races her 13’ Laser on the Chesapeake and the Delaware River. She’s also an amateur circus acrobat and has performed on trapeze and other apparatus. She splits her time between Philadelphia and Chestertown, MD.