Background
Darnton, John Townsend was born on November 20, 1941 in New York City. Son of Byron and Eleanor Kate Darnton.
(From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this...)
From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this novel of gripping suspense and scientific conquest–a page-turning historical mystery that brilliantly explores the intrigue behind Darwin and his theory of evolution.It’s 1831, and aboard HMS Beagle the young Charles Darwin sets off down the English Channel for South America. More than 150 years later, two ambitious scholars pursuing their obsession with Darwin (and with each other) come across the diaries and letters of Darwin’s daughter. What they discover is a maze of violent rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, and the extraordinary story of an expedition embarked upon by two men. Only one returned–and changed history forever.
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Darnton, John Townsend was born on November 20, 1941 in New York City. Son of Byron and Eleanor Kate Darnton.
Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1966.
He also moonlights as a novelist who writes scientific and medical thrillers. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Darnton joined the New York Times as a copyboy in 1966. Two years later he became a reporter and for the next eight years he worked in and around New York City, including stints as the Connecticut correspondent during the Black Panther trials in New Haven, and as a City Hall reporter in the Lindsay and Beame administrations.
In 1976 he went abroad as a foreign correspondent, first covering Africa out of Lagos, Nigeria, and then, when the military government there expelled him in 1977, out of Nairobi, Kenya.
He covered protests in South Africa, liberation movements in Rhodesia, guerrilla fighting in Ethiopia, Somalia, Zaire, and the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda. He went on to become the bureau chief in Madrid and London and also served as the deputy foreign editor, the metropolitan editor, and the cultural news editor at the Times.
He retired from the Times in 2005. After retiring from the Times in 2005, Darnton began teaching journalism as a visiting professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
In 2009, John Darnton was named curator of the George Polk Awards.
(From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this...)
(Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction, Darwinism)
Member Century Club.
Married Nina Jane Lieberman, August 21, 1966. Children: Kyra, Liza, James.