Nancy Pick
American nonfiction author
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Nancy Elizabeth Pick is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books.
Education and career
Pick is a 1983 graduate of Amherst College, and the daughter of an Amherst alumnus.[1] After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and teaching English at the University of Dijon in France, in 1984 she became assistant editor of the Winchester Star in Winchester, Massachusetts.[2] She has also worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun,[3] and as a staff writer for the Harvard Museum of Natural History.[4]
Books
Pick's books include:
- The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, with photographs by Mark Sloan, HarperCollins, 2004.[5]
- Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks & Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College, Amherst College Press, 2006.[6]
- Skuggorna vi bär : Stig Dagerman möter Etta Federn i Paris 1947 / Les Ombres de Stig Dagerman / The Writer and the Refugee, written with Lo Dagerman, Sweden: Norstedts, 2017; France: Maurice Nadeau, 2018.[7]
- Eye Mind Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200, Amherst College Press, 2021.[1][3]
- Do Plants Know Math? Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Now, written with Stéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, and Christophe Golé, Princeton University Press, 2024;[8] winner of the 2026 Euler Book Prize.[9]
She has also translated Robert Karjel's thriller novel The Swede from Swedish into English with Karjel.[10] She also translated Clarisse Griffon du Bellay’s memoir Raw from French into English.[11]
Personal life
Pick lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts with her husband, Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas; they have two sons.[1][12] They married in Chicago in 1991.[13]