Hope Jahren

About the Author

Hope Jahren was born in the small town of Austin, in southwestern Minnesota, to a professor father and a homemaker mother. As a child, she spent much of her free time in her father’s laboratory at the local community college, and tending to the garden with her mother. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1991, going on to receive her Ph.D. in Soil Science at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. She has worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Hawaii; she now lives in Oslo, Norway, with her husband and son, where she works as a professor at the University of Oslo. Her memoir, Lab Girl, was published in 2016, while she was in Hawaii.

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Lab Girl

Lab Girl is Hope Jahren’s memoir, tracing her trajectory from a curious child in her father’s lab to her career as a successful science researcher, wife, and mother. Jahren grew up in a small town... view guide