David Dobbs writes features and essays for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Wired, and Scientific American. Several of his stories have been chosen for leading science anthologies; most recently, his much-discussed feature for the Atlantic, "The Orchid Children," was selected by Jerome Groopman for Ecco/HarperPerennial's Best American Science Writing 2010. He is now writing a book, working title The Orchid and the Dandelion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) that further explores the hypothesis he brought to light in his Atlantic story: that the genes and traits that underlie some of our most troublesome mental conditions and behaviors also sometimes generate some of our greatest strengths and accomplishments.
