Paul Raeburn

Paul Raeburn is a journalist whose stories have appeared recently in The Huffington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, Technology Review, and Psychology Today, among others.

He is the author, most recently, of Acquainted with the Night, a memoir of raising children with depression and bipolar disorder. He is also the author of Are Fathers Necessary: The New Science of Fatherhood, to be published next year by Simon & Schuster. He is also the author of the Fathers and Families blog.

Raeburn is a former science editor at Business Week and The Associated Press. He is also the organizer of the annual national conference New Horizons in Science.

Raeburn's earlier books include Mars, published by the National Geographic Society in 1998; and The Last Harvest, published by Simon & Schuster in 1995.

He has been a journalism fellow at Stanford University and science-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Raeburn is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. He studied composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and he plays piano and guitar. Before joining the AP, he worked for the Boston Phoenix and the Lowell (Mass.) Sun.

A native of Detroit, Raeburn now lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, and their son, Henry. See his site for more information.

His PT blog is About Fathers.