Nancy Pick

Nancy Elizabeth Pick is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books.

Education and career

Pick is a 1983 graduate of Amherst College, and the daughter of an Amherst alumnus.[1] After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and teaching English at the University of Dijon in France, in 1984 she became assistant editor of the Winchester Star in Winchester, Massachusetts.[2] She has also worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun,[3] and as a staff writer for the Harvard Museum of Natural History.[4]

Books

Pick's books include:

  • The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, with photographs by Mark Sloan, HarperCollins, 2004.[5]
  • Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks & Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College, Amherst College Press, 2006.[6]
  • Skuggorna vi bär : Stig Dagerman möter Etta Federn i Paris 1947 / Les Ombres de Stig Dagerman / The Writer and the Refugee, written with Lo Dagerman, Sweden: Norstedts, 2017; France: Maurice Nadeau, 2018.[7]
  • Eye Mind Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200, Amherst College Press, 2021.[1][3]
  • Do Plants Know Math? Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Now, written with Stéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, and Christophe Golé, Princeton University Press, 2024;[8] winner of the 2026 Euler Book Prize.[9]

She has also translated Robert Karjel's thriller novel The Swede from Swedish into English with Karjel.[10]

Personal life

Pick lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts with her husband, Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas; they have two sons.[1][11] They married in Chicago in 1991.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pfarrer, Steve (9 September 2021), "200 years of learning: Amherst College history marked by growth and change", Amherst Bulletin, retrieved 2026-07-14
  2. ↑ "Newspeople in the News", Editor & Publisher, 29 December 1984, retrieved 2026-07-14
  3. 1 2 Bicentennial books: Eye Mind Heart, Amherst College, retrieved 2026-07-14
  4. ↑ "Pick, Nancy", Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 2026-07-14
  5. ↑ Reviews of The Rarest of the Rare:
  6. ↑ Review of Curious Footprints:
  7. ↑ Review of Skuggorna vi bär : Stig Dagerman möter Etta Federn i Paris 1947 / Les Ombres de Stig Dagerman / The Writer and the Refugee:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Do Plants Know Math?:
    • Bodine, Erin N. (2025), The American Mathematical Monthly, 132 (4): 375–380, doi:10.1080/00029890.2025.2445991{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bultheel, Adhemar (2025), European Mathematical Society Magazine (136): 65–67, doi:10.4171/MAG/234{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Devadoss, Satyan L. (2026), The Mathematical Intelligencer, 48 (2): 197–199, doi:10.1007/s00283-025-10485-z{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Lipscomb, Barney (2025), Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 19 (2): 132, doi:10.17348/jbrit.v19.i2.1410{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Millichap, Christian (2025), Math Horizons, 32 (4): 29, doi:10.1080/10724117.2025.2456444{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Niklas, Karl J. (2025), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 100 (2): 129, doi:10.1086/735992{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Siobhan Roberts (2024), "Evergreen algebra", The Wall Street Journal
  9. ↑ Recipient of the 2026 Euler Book Prize Award Announced, Mathematical Association of America, 29 May 2026, retrieved 2026-07-14
  10. ↑ Review of The Swede:
  11. ↑ "About the Guests, Dr. Christophe Golé and Nancy Pick", Breaking Math, 23 September 2024, retrieved 2026-07-14
  12. ↑ "Nancy Pick wed to L. R. Douglas", The New York Times, 23 June 1991, retrieved 2026-07-14
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