JAMES SCHWARTZ is the author of In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA, which was named one of Amazon.com's Best Science Books of 2008.  His work has been published in Poets & Writers, Lingua Franca, The Scientist and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and has been chosen for inclusion in Best American Science Writing 2001 and Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca.  Jim is currently writing a non-fiction book about Soviet genetics under Stalin and working on a novel.  He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.