Matt Ridley's books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything. His book on How Innovation Works was published in 2020, and Viral: the Search for the Origin of Covid-19, co-authored with Alina Chan, was published in 2021. He sat in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. He was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. He created the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, and was a columnist for the Times 2013-2018. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Northumberland.
"Matt Ridley's Francis Crick perceptively and warmly recounts the extraordinary life of the 20th century's most important biologist." -- James D. Watson"A nimble biography." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"A considerably more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before." -- Nicholas Wade, New York Times"Thoughtful. . .aptly conjures a forgotten scientific landscape. . ." -- New York Times Book Review"Lucid and riveting . . . Completely captivating, a lively and deeply intriguing account of one of biology's most imaginative scientists." -- Kay Redfield Jamison"Matt Ridley's book reads beautifully, the science flowing along with the life, to form a unity." -- Aaron Klug"This is a wonderful book--deeply substantive, lucid, trenchant, and witty. It tells the biggest story in modern biology." -- David Quammen"A fitting tribute to a...canonical figure in modern science" -- Publishers Weekly"Ridley has captured the wonder of an unparalleled scientific mind at work and at play." -- Nicholas Wade, New York TimesPraise for Eminent Lives Series: FRANCIS CRICK and CHARLES DARWIN -- --"The reader gets a strong sense of how these men lived, what they achieved and how they achieved it." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Ridley captures Crick's audacity, brilliance and, not least, eloquence...An excellent first biography" -- Brenda Maddox, Sunday Times (London)"Enjoyable...Ridley does an excellent job of escorting readers on [an] intellectual roller coaster ride." -- BioScience
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