Barry Werth

About The Author

Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist and the acclaimed author of five books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, among others. He has taught at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Boston University. His previous book on Vertex, The Billion-Dollar Molecule, was selected as one of Fortune’s “75 Smartest Books We Know.”

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Books by Barry Werth

The Age of Cures

How American Scientists Saved Your Life

By Barry Werth

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.

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