Joy Hakim

Joy Hakim is the best-selling author of A History of US, a ten-volume history of the United States that has sold over three million copies. She also wrote the much-lauded Story of Science series (Smithsonian) that includes Einstein Adds a New Dimension. The author of the first two books in the Discovering Life's Story series, Biology's Beginnings and Evolution of an Idea, Joy Hakim has worked as a teacher, newspaper writer, and editor and currently lives in Maryland.