Ann Finkbeiner

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Select a Title: The Jasons After The Death of a Child The Guide to Living with HIV Infection

The Jasons (Viking/Penguin, 2006) is about a group mostly of academic physicists which has spent every summer for the last 45 years working on problems for the government, mostly for the defense department and mostly classified. Academics generally dislike classified work, but these Jasons are some of the country’s smartest scientists. The book won a prize in 2008 from American Institute of Physics.

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After the Death of a Child (Free Press, 1996; JHU Press, 1998) is about what has changed in the long term in parents whose children have died. I wrote it because my own son died and about four years later, I wanted to know whether my reactions were normal; and they were. Nevertheless, the book is not autobiographical.

I also co-authored with Dr. John Bartlett The Guide to Living with HIV Infection (Johns Hopkins University Press). It’s an extremely useful and thorough book, and is now in its 6th edition.