Richard Panek

Richard Panek has written for ‘The New York Times Magazine’, ‘Outside’, ‘Esquire’ and the ‘Chicago Tribune’, and is a contributing writer at ‘Elle’ and ‘Mirabella’. He is the winner of a PEN award for short fiction. He is also the author of ‘Wateroo Diamonds’, a social history of an Iowa community told through it’s baseball fortunes, ‘Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope’, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe’.