Steven Salzberg
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Science
- Occupation: Professor
- Location: College Park : Maryland : United States
About Me
I am a Professor at the University of Maryland studying bioinformatics, genomics, evolution, and related topics. I'm also the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (http://cbcb.umd.edu) here. I earned my Ph.D. from Harvard University and my bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University.
Interests
Favorite Books
- FICTION: The Last of the Mohicans (and the other 3 Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper)
- The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Wayfarers (Knut Hamsun)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
- Tinker
- Tailor
- Soldier
- Spy (John LeCarre)
- Main Street (Sinclair Lewis)
- Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
- Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
- The Discovery of Heaven (Harry Mulisch)
- Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
- The Traveler (John Twelve Hawks). Humorous fiction: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Sue Townsend)
- Basket Case (and any others by Carl Hiaasen). NONFICTION: The Worst Journey in the World (Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
- Mawson’s Will (Lennard Bickel)
- Shackelton’s Forgotten Men (Lenndard Bickel)
- Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
- Complications (Atul Gawande)
- In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson)
- Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
- Overdosed America (John Abramson)
- The Lives of a Cell (Lewis Thomas)
- The Cuckoo’s Egg (Cliff Stoll)
- Golf in the Kingdom (Michael Murphy)
- My Usual Game (David Owen)
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