Mariah Blake

Mariah Blake is an American investigative journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New Republic, CJR, and other publications.[1]

In 2025, Blake published the book They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals, a sweeping investigation of the American chemical industry and its decades-long cover-up of the dangers of PFAS, or "forever chemicals," as they are commonly known.[2][3][4] The book was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award;[5] the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard;[6] a Los Times Book Prize;[7] and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime from Mystery Writers of America.[8] It was also named one of the best nonfiction books of 2025 by The Washington Post and Scientific American, which praise it as an "an epic of science writing."[9][10]

Blake earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Barnard College and a Master of Science in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[11] She was the 2016 Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University. [12]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2147321/mariah-blake/
  2. ↑ Rothfeld, Becca (May 2, 2025). "Review | Chemical makers knew the harms. It didn't matter". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on July 24, 2025. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
  3. ↑ "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake". Publishers Weekly. February 21, 2025. Archived from the original on January 18, 2026. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
  4. ↑ "THEY POISONED THE WORLD". 2026-05-26. April 19, 2025. Archived from the original on January 20, 2026. Retrieved March 17, 2026 – via Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ↑ "Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. January 29, 2026. Archived from the original on March 13, 2026. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce Shortlists for the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
  7. ↑ X; LinkedIn (April 18, 2026). "L.A. Times Book Prize honorees named — many celebrate resistance: 'When people rise, empires always fall'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  8. ↑ "MWA Announces the 2026 Edgar Award Winners". CrimeReads. April 30, 2026. Archived from the original on May 25, 2026. Retrieved May 27, 2026.
  9. ↑ "50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025". The Washington Post. November 20, 2025. Archived from the original on December 17, 2025. Retrieved June 1, 2026.
  10. ↑ DelViscio, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Brianne Kane, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery. "From Climate Catastrophes to Space Romance––Scientific American's Favorite Science Books of the Year". Scientific American. Retrieved June 1, 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Mariah Blake - Author at Crown Publishing". THE ORG. Retrieved May 26, 2026.
  12. ↑ https://nieman.harvard.edu/class-of-2016/|2016 Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism
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