Jennie Erin Smith is the author of Stolen World. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, and others. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award; the Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in Florida; and two first-place awards from the Society for Features Journalism. She lives in Florida and Colombia.
Books in order of publication:
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery – 2011
Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure – 2025
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