Deborah Rudacille

Deborah Rudacille is an independent journalist and science writer. She lives in Baltimore Maryland. Her first book, The Scalpel and the Butterfly (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), was named one of the year's best nonfiction books by the Los Angeles Times. The Riddle of Gender (Pantheon, 2004) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her new book, Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town is about her family and community and the rise and fall of the American working class. More information is available on her website at http://www.deborahrudacille.com