Background
Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey.
reporter science and environmental writer
Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey.
Fagin graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth (the college"s daily newspaper).
Fagin is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. His book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation was published March 19, 2013. In a review, Abigail Zuger in the New York Times called it "a new classic of science reporting." He is also the co-author with Marianne Lavelle of the book Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health (1997).
Fagin is currently working on a book about monarch butterflies and the future of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
Foreign fourteen years, Fagin was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
Married Alison Frankel. 2 children.
