Daniel S. Greenberg

Daniel S. Greenberg is a Washington-based journalist who has recently turned to fiction after a long career writing about science policy and politics. He is the author of three non-fiction books, "The Politics of Pure Science," "Science, Money, and Politics," and "Science for Sale," all published by the University of Chicago Press. His novel, "Tech Transfer: Science, Money, Love, and the Ivory Tower," published in 2010, was described by the New York Times as "a hilarious" and "mordant satire about scientists and universities and how they do business." (NY Times, Science section, book review, May 25, 2010).

Greenberg has served as a reporter for the Washington Post, as news editor of Science magazine, and as a columnist for the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. For many years, he wrote an op-ed column that appeared in the Washington Post and other newspapers, and contributed to many publications, including the New York Times, the Economist, Harper's, Smithsonian, Nature, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He founded and for 25 years edited Science & Government Report, an international newsletter which was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 1997. Greenberg has held appointments as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, Visiting Scholar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Johns Hopkins University and as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and has been awarded research grants by the Carnegie Corporation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of Columbia University and served as a naval officer prior to beginning his career in journalism.