Laura Spinney
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Laura Spinney is an author and science journalist. She has published fiction, non-fiction, and translations.
Her 2017 account of the 1918 flu pandemic, Pale Rider, was an international bestseller. Her next book, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, was published in the spring of 2025.
She writes on science for The Guardian, Economist, Nature and National Geographic, among others.
