Author

Jared Diamond

12 books, mostly cultural social issues, for Penguin Audio and Random House Audio, 2005–2026

Jared Diamond is an American scientist and nonfiction author whose writing career focuses on explaining human history and the development, success, and collapse of societies through interdisciplinary research. He became widely known for The Third Chimpanzee, followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, and later wrote major works including Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval. His books draw on geography, anthropology, ecology, biology, and history.