Catherine Price (author)
Catherine Price (author)
Catherine Price is a journalist, speaker and consultant. She is the author of How to Break Up With Your Phone and Vitamania.
**Career
Catherine writes, consults, and speaks about a variety of health/science-related subjects, including patient-focused medicine (with a particular focus on diabetes) and nutrition.[1] As a freelance journalist, her work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular science, O, The Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Men's Journal, and Health among others.[undefined]
Catherine is a recipient of a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Reporting, a Société de Chimie Industrielle Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing.[1]
Her most recent book, How to Break Up with Your Phone, is being published in more than 26 countries and translated into more than 18 languages.[1]
Books
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan To Take Back Your Life (Ten Speed Press, February, 2018);[1] a book that reveals some of the many ways in which phones are affecting our productivity, creativity, relationships, memory, attention spans, and sleep — and provides a personalized plan for how to take back life from a device without giving it up completely.[undefined]
Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food (Penguin Press, 2015) [1]; a book that tells the history of vitamins and supplements, as well as an investigation into the future of the food, from phytochemicals to epigenetics.[undefined]
Mindfulness: A Journal (Clarkson Potter, 2016);[undefined] the parody travel guide.
101 Places Not to See Before You Die (HarperPaperbacks, 2010) [undefined]
The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook (HarperCollins, 2009) [undefined]
Education
In 2001 Catherine received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Yale University. She also studied Journalism at University of California, Berkeley.[1]