Where did you grow up?Washington, DC, just a few blocks from Politics and Prose bookstore.
Where and what did you study?I majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale.
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The author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, whose recent New Yorker story on an amateur linguist’s invented language has become a must-read, talks about why a couple chose to leave in the middle of his book talk—and it wasn't because he lost out to Oliver Sacks.
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