About the Author

HP Newquist is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books, including Invention & Impact- The Human Body (Viking-Smithsonian); The Book of Chocolate (Viking Children's Books), The Book of Blood, a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Book of the Year; the critically acclaimed The Great Brain Book, an NSTA and Children's Book Council Outstanding Science Book of the Year; and For Boys Only, an American Library Association "Quick Pick" and New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age, among others. His hundreds of magazine articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Popular Science.