Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the New Scientist magazine. He is a 2019-20 MIT Knight Science Journalism research fellow.

His second book, The Man Who Wasn't There, on the nature of the human self, was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the journal Science said it was "reminiscent of the writings of Oliver Sacks".