![]() ![]() But on the dedication page are two bright lights from the publishing solar system: Carolyn Reidy, longtime head of Simon & Schuster, and Alice Mayhew, who was Isaacson’s editor for 40 years. The star of the book is Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped invent CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that has played a role in the fight against Covid-19. 2 in its second week on the hardcover nonfiction list. For many readers, these pages are like a peek inside a master chef’s spice cabinet they hint at influences on the person who is about to host a pop-up buffet in your brain.Ĭonsider Walter Isaacson’s latest opus, “ The Code Breaker,” which is now No. ![]() ![]() FINE PRINT Voracious bibliophiles have a funny habit of grazing the fine print - dedication, epigraph and acknowledgments - before tucking into the main course of a book. ![]()
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