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About Charles
CHARLES PANATI, a former physicist and for six years a science editor for Newsweek, is the author of many non-fiction and fiction books, including six works on "origins." He's considered the country's leading authority on the origins of just about everything.
He has made a life out of exploring origins. Researching his own family, he learned that he is not a "Panati" by blood, but through his father's adoption. His obsession with getting to the roots of things gave him a second family: the Hudsons of Kilbaha, Country Kerry, Ireland.
Listen to Charles Panati read from his national bestseller, The Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things.
Browse Penguin Putnam's biography of Charles Panati
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