![]() ![]() Spinney indicates that the global pandemic was the biggest disaster of the 20th century, exceeding the death tolls of both World War I (17 million) and World War II (60 million dead). In 2017 she published Pale Rider, an account of the 1918 flu pandemic, published by Jonathan Cape who acquired the global rights in an auction in 2015. She is the author of two novels, The Doctor and The Quick, and a collection of oral history from a central European city entitled Rue Centrale. Spinney has written for Nature, National Geographic, The Economist, New Scientist, and The Guardian. Spinney graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Sciences from Durham University in 1993. ![]() Laura Spinney (born August 1971) is a British science journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer whose 2017 book Pale Rider is an account of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science ![]()
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