Brendan Borrell
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Brendan Borrell

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Brendan Borrell is an award-winning journalist and the author of The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and the Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine, which tells the inside story of Operation Warp Speed. Over the last fifteen years, his essays and reporting have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, and the New York Times. He has tracked down the Canadian maple syrup thieves, penetrated the secretive world of British mole catchers, and come face-to-face with the most powerful man in parrot-collecting. As a correspondent for Outside magazine, he searched for a whimsical French adventurer who went missing in Alaska and participated in a survival competition for gun enthusiasts. Brendan grew up in Texas and received a Ph.D. in biology from UC Berkeley in 2006 before turning full-time to journalism. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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