He is the coauthor of four books, and contributing editor for Science, Atlantic Monthly, and Wired. Mann has also written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. In 2005 he wrote 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, followed in 2011 by 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
His 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. He served as a judge for the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.
