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Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine.

Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. They live in Brooklyn, New York.


How P.T. Barnum Brought Beluga Whales to New York City

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy on Museum Ethics and Animal Welfare in 19th Century America
April 25, 2024  By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
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