The Patriarchs

Angela Saini is an award-winning journalist based in New York, and the author of four books. She teaches science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents radio and television programmes, and her writing has appeared in The Financial Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, and Wired. An Undark magazine series on race science she co-edited was a finalist for a US National Magazine Award in 2023.


Her latest book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule was published in spring 2023, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Her previous two books Superior: The Return of Race Science and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong were critically acclaimed and now sit on university reading lists across the world. Together, her books have been translated into 18 languages. Angela's two-part television series for the BBC about the history and science of eugenics aired in 2019.


As the founder and chair of the 'Challenging Pseudoscience' group at the Royal Institution, Angela campaigns around issues of bias and misinformation. Listen to her 2019 BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Misinformation Virus, here. She sits on a number of boards, including the Royal Society's Science Policy Expert Advisory Committee. In 2023 she was made an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford. She has delivered classes and lectures at many of the world's top universities, including Yale, Princeton and Columbia.


Angela's literary agent is Peter Tallack at Curious Minds. For speaking engagements outside the United States please contact Vicki McIvor at Take Three Management. For invitations in North America please contact Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Agency.


Please note that Angela is not on Twitter or Facebook, and keeps a minimal presence on Instagram and LinkedIn. If you would like to contact her directly, it's best to email.

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