The Gene

Cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies, a profoundly humane biography of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. Mukherjee brings his passion and precision to bear in his latest book The Gene: An Intimate History, a synthesis of the science of life and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to "read" and "write" our own genetic information?