Education
Born in Warrington, Cheshire in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a Bachelor of Science First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor.
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He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical General Practice, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.
Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker"s writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley"s multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children"s book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Parker also writes adult books, recently including Extinction: Not the End of the World? (Natural History Museum, 2013), the million-selling The Human Body Book (Second Edition, Dorling Kindersley, 2013) and Kill or Cure, an Illustrated History of Medicine (Dorling Kindersley, 2013)
Parker travels extensively around Britain to hold talks, workshops and book signings at schools, libraries and science events.
Achievements
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In 2013 Parker"s title Science Crazy (quod erat demonstrandum) won the United Kingdom School Library Association"s Information Book Award, and Fizzing Physics (quod erat demonstrandum) won the Hampshire Information Book Award. In 2014 Kill or Cure entered the New York Times Science Bestsellers and also won the 2014 British Medical Association Book Award for Public Understanding of Science.
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