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Chapman University

Tom Zoellner is the author of two narrative nonfiction books about minerals: The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire; and Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World, which won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for 2011. Tom has previously worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and is now an Associate Professor of English at Chapman University in California.