{"id":1071,"date":"2018-03-04T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:24","slug":"collaborating-with-charles-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Collaborating with Charles Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just half a year from now, Simon &amp; Schuster will publish my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/On-the-Origin-of-Species\/Rebecca-Stefoff\/9781481462495\">young readers edition<\/a> of the most important scientific book ever written. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Origin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Origin.jpg 350w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Origin-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Origin-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was twenty-three, an earnest grad student in English, when I first read\u00a0 Charles Darwin&#8217;s <em>On the Origin of Species.\u00a0<\/em>In the years that followed, as my nonfiction writing career took me deeper into writing science books for kids, I reread the <em>Origin<\/em> several times, alongside many more recent works on natural history and evolutionary biology. So once I&#8217;d published YA adaptations of books by Howard Zinn, Jared Diamond, and others, it was perhaps inevitable that I&#8217;d think, &#8220;What about Darwin?&#8221; And here we are.<\/p>\n<p>A reviewer once called me &#8220;the redoubtable Stefoff.&#8221; I hope it was redoubtable, not rash, of me\u00a0 to interpret Darwin&#8217;s thoughts and words for today&#8217;s young readers. (Bonus: Not just for kids. It&#8217;s for anyone who&#8217;d like to read a shortened, streamlined, illustrated version of the <em>Origin.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just half a year from now, Simon &amp; Schuster will publish my young readers edition of the most important scientific book ever written. I was twenty-three, an earnest grad student in English, when I first read\u00a0 Charles Darwin&#8217;s On the Origin of Species.\u00a0In the years that followed, as my nonfiction writing career took me deeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,28,27,14,4],"tags":[36,58,57,65,40],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwin","category-evolution","category-work-life","category-publishing","category-writing","tag-darwin","tag-evolution","tag-work-life","tag-origin-of-species","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}