Richard Dawkins is the author of the decidedly not-controversial memoir Brief Candle in the Dark.
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and atheist, has just published the second volume of his memoirs, Brief Candle in the Dark. The follow-up to An Appetite for Wonder covers the period following the publication of his first book, The Selfish Gene, in 1976, through the massive success of The God Delusion, and his emergence as that rarest of contemporary figures: a public intellectual who actually knows what he’s talking about. It’s not easy to make compelling drama from what essentially amounts to four decades of increasing glory and acclaim, but Dawkins is a deft (though occasionally pedantic) stylist with a truly fascinating mind…
