Lawrence Wright's Covid-19 Book Goest to Knopf
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Lawrence Wright has sold a book about Covid-19 to Knopf. The publisher called the work an "all-encompassing account" of the disease in the U.S. that traces it from its origins in China to "the critical first weeks and months of its arrival in the U.S."
The Plague Year is set for June 8, with a first announced printing of 100,000 copies. (An excerpt from the book appeared in the December 28 issues of The New Yorker.)
Knopf elaborated that the book "takes us inside the Center for Disease Control and the White House, into a hospital COVID ward, into the realm of prediction specialists—and even inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how virus and vaccines function." The publisher added that the book offers "the first clear-eyed assessment of this ongoing catastrophe."
