David Baron

David Baron is a prizewinning author, journalist, broadcaster, and public speaker, who writes about science and the American West. A former science correspondent for NPR, he comes to the festival with "The Martians," a look at America's fascination with alien beings in the early 1900s. His first book, "The Beast in the Garden," won a Colorado Book Award. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is an affiliate in the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism.   

Awards: Colorado Book Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Book Prize (finalist, 2003), American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2018), PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (finalist, 2018)

Communities: LGBTQ+

Books:

The Martians

The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-the-Century America
History / Biography
Liveright Publishing Corporation
August 2025
ISBN 9781324090663
336 pages

American Eclipse

A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
History / Biography
Liveright Publishing Corporation
February 2024
ISBN 9781324094692
368 pages