Indiana Jones And The Literary Science Writing Award

PEN American Center has announced that acclaimed naturalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Edward O. Wilson and actor and conservationist Harrison Ford have joined with PEN to create the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing.

The $10,000 award which will be awarded to one non-fiction book each year is designed to “acknowledge new and compelling literary writing about the physical and biological sciences. Beginning in 2011, a winner will be chosen by PEN American Center each fall, and will receive a prize of $10,000. Dr. Wilson and Mr. Ford have provided funding for the first three years of the award’s conferral.”

More: http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2066