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Lulu Miller

Biography

Lulu Miller

Lulu Miller is a Peabody Award–winning science reporter who has been working in public radio for over 15 years. She is a co-founder of NPR’s "Invisibilia," a show about the invisible forces that shape human behavior. She is also a frequent contributor to "Radiolab." Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, VQR, Orion, Electric Literature, Catapult and beyond. Her favorite spot on earth is Humpback Rocks.

Lulu Miller

Books by Lulu Miller

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
by Lulu Miller - Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Science

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist who would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But his specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool. But what she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality and the world beneath her feet.