Kate Zernike

Kate Zernike is an author and journalist. She joined The New York Times in 2000 as an education reporter and has since worked on the investigations, national, styles, metro, and science desks, and as a reporter in the Washington Bureau. And most recently was the lead reporter covering abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade. She was a member of the team that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of stories on Al Qaeda before and after the terror attacks of 9/11. Her first book, Boiling Mad: Behind the Lines in Tea Party America, was published in 2010. Her latest book, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science (2023), was named one of the 25 best books of the year by the American Library Association and was a finalist for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she began her journalism career at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and was a reporter for The Boston Globe before joining The Times.