About John W. Farrell

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John W. Farrell is a writer and producer working in Boston. He is the author of The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein and the Birth of Modern Cosmology from Basic Books, and The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can’t Live Without, from Prometheus Books. 

A graduate of Harvard College with a B.A. in English and American Literature, Farrell has written for Commonweal, Aeon, Skeptic, Cosmos Magazine, New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, SalonNational Review, Forbes and The Tablet of London. His fiction has appeared in Dappled Things, his poetry in Penwood Review, First Things and U.S. Catholic. He is a longstanding member of Boston’s creative writing community at Grub Street.

Contact: info_at_farrellmedia.com