James Gorman is a writer and editor and the author of seven books, on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to penguins to the oddly humorous aspects of science, medicine and technology.  He was on the New York Times staff for for 28 years, from 1993-2021, working as an editor, reporter and host of the video series, ScienceTake.

  His science reporting and humor writing have been published in many newspapers and magazines, including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Audubon, and most recently The New York Times and The Washington Post. He taught science journalism at Wesleyan University in 2022 and 2017 (Koeppel Fellow, 2022; Kim-Frank Visiting Writer in Science Journalism 2017),  Princeton University  in 2011 (McGraw Visiting Professor of Writing), Fordham University in 2011, Stanford University Continuing Studies program online in 2010 and New York University in 1993, 1985.