D.T. Max

American journalist and biographer, a longtime New Yorker staff writer, known for The Family That Couldn't Sleep and Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, his biography of David Foster Wallace.

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  1. 1. The Family That Couldn't Sleep

    A Medical Mystery
    Cover of 'The Family That Couldn't Sleep' by D.T. Max

    A nonfiction medical mystery tracing prion diseases through the saga of a multigenerational Italian family afflicted by fatal familial insomnia. It weaves intimate case histories with the global stories of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and mad cow, charting the contentious rise of the prion theory and showing how misfolded proteins challenge assumptions about contagion, heredity, and sleep.

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