author
Katie Spalding
d. 1954
With a mathematician’s eye and a comedian’s timing, she writes popular science that makes big ideas feel playful, surprising, and very human.
1 Audiobook
Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
by Anne Grenfell, Katie Spalding
About the author
Katie Spalding is a British science writer and author whose work blends sharp humor with genuine curiosity. Reliable author pages say she spent about ten years studying mathematics and earned a PhD in 2018 for a thesis in multi-valued dynamics.
Alongside her books, she has written for outlets including IFLScience and Literary Hub. Her published work is often centered on explaining science and the strange side of intellectual history in a lively, approachable way.
She is best known for writing nonfiction that makes clever people feel relatable rather than distant, including Edison's Ghosts and The Limits of Genius. Across her work, the draw is the same: serious ideas, told with warmth, wit, and a sense of fun.