Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson looks forward to losing himself in an epic
mystery each evening. He’s just finished the works of Patrick O’Brian. “I enjoy
living at sea with him in the early 19th century. But I only join him between
the hours of 10 and 11 at night.” Wilson also enjoys the novels of Jonathan
Kellerman and John Dunning, both of whom “have the special quality of being
experts in their particular fields”—Kellerman in psychology and mental
institutions, Dunning in rare books.
Most of Wilson’s recent academic reading has been research for his new book,
Future Life,…
