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Andrew Lawler

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Norfolk, VA, The United States

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Andrew Lawler is a contributing writer with Science and contributing editor for Archaeology with more than thirty years full-time experience as a journalist and author. His stories have also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discover, Audubon, American Archaeology, Columbia Journalism Review, Slate, Orion, The Sun, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, as well as several foreign publications. He is the author of more than a thousand articles, and his work has appeared twice in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He has twice won the Gene S. Stuart award for archaeology reporting, and was awarded the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship (nine months) and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship (two mont ...more

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	The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke 3.76 avg rating — 1,679 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City 3.91 avg rating — 737 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization 3.74 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution 4.25 avg rating — 150 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devils Vs. The Archaeologist 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death Pit 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Station Directory by Andrew Lawler (Goodreads Author), James A. Vedda 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discover: Science, Technology, and the Future (January 2009 100 Top Science Stories of 2008) by Dava Sobel, Michael Abrams, Richard Panek 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The modern chicken is both a technological triumph and a poster child for all that is sad and nightmarish about our industrial agriculture. The most engineered creature in history is also the world’s most commonly mistreated animal.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

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“The mystery of how the chicken phallus vanished was recently solved, although why it vanished remains a matter of some controversy among the small but dedicated band of bird-penis researchers.”
― Andrew Lawler, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

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What book about the Tudors or the Tudor world would you like to be our Group Read in March 2022?

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler

9 votes, 22.5%

The Woman in the Shadows by Carol McGrath

8 votes, 20.0%

Je Anne Boleyn: Struck with the Dart of Love by Sandra Vasoli

4 votes, 10.0%

The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant

4 votes, 10.0%

The Queen and the Torturer by F.W. Brownlow

4 votes, 10.0%

To Serve a King by Donna Russo Morin

4 votes, 10.0%

Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard

2 votes, 5.0%

The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII's Throne by Geoffrey Moorhouse

2 votes, 5.0%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

2 votes, 5.0%

The Tudor Cookbook: From Gilded Peacock to Calves Feet Pie by Terry Breverton

1 vote, 2.5%

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