Matt Kaplan

Photograph by Tristan Horner

About The Author

Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent with The Economist. He has also contributed to National Geographic, New Scientist, Nature, and The New York Times. He is the author of the book The Science of Monsters. In 2014, Kaplan was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship which he used to study the sciences at MIT and folklore at Harvard.

Books by Matt Kaplan

The Science of Monsters

The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear

We all know “there’s no such thing as monsters,” but our imaginations tell us otherwise.
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