Jennie Erin Smith, author portrait

Jennie Erin Smith

Jennie Erin Smith is the author of Stolen World. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, and others. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award; the Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in Florida; and two first-place awards from the Society for Features Journalism. She lives in Florida and Colombia.
Valley of Forgetting
Stolen World

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Valley of Forgetting
Stolen World

Author Jennie Erin Smith Discusses Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure

By: Jennie Erin Smith Valley of Forgetting is a very readable and vivid science narrative that offers a rare worm’s eye view of clinical research in Latin America, from the perspectives of both the subjects and the investigators. I spent seven years researching and writing it, most of that time in Medellin, Colombia. The book

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