Laura Spinney

Laura Spinney (born August 1971) is a British science journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer whose 2017 book Pale Rider is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic. 2Career Spinney graduated with a degree in Natural Sciences from Durham University in 1993.Spinney has written on science for Nature, National Geographic, The Economist, New Scientist, and The Guardian. She is the author of two novels, The Doctor (Methuen, 2001) and The Quick (Fourth Estate, 2007), and a collection of oral history from a central European city entitled Rue Centrale (Editions L'Age d'Homme, 2013). In 2017 she published Pale Rider, an account of the 1918 flu pandemic, published by Jonathan Cape who acquired the global rights in an auction in 2015.Spinney's most recent book-length work is an English translation of Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz's novel Derborence (Skomlin, 2018). In the spring of 2019 she will spend two months as a journalist-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.Spinney lives in Paris, France. 2Selected works 3Books The Doctor. Methuen, London, 2001. ISBN 0413754707 The Quick. Fourth Estate, London, 2007. ISBN 9780007240500 Rue Central