Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
2024 book by Jason Roberts
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life is a 2024 book by Jason Roberts. The book is a biography of 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, known as the founding father of taxonomy, and his fellow naturalist the Comte de Buffon.[1][2][3][4] The book was the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[5]
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| Author | Jason Roberts |
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| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 9 April 2024 |
| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781984855206 |
Awards
| Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pulitzer Prize for Biography | Won | [5] |
| PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | Won | [6] | |
