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Robert Kanigel (born May 28, 1946) is an American biographer and science writer, known as the author of seven books and more than 400 articles, essays, and reviews.
His first book, Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty, was published in 1986. This was followed by in 1991; The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency in 1999; High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years in 2002; and Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes in 2007. Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury, a Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books, published in 1998, is a compilation of 80 book reviews.
In 1999, Kanigel became professor of science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he helped start its Graduate Program in Science Writing, which he directed for seven years. In 2011, he returned to live and write in Baltimore.
On An Irish Island, published in 2012, is an ensemble biography of the scholars, linguists, and writers who visited Ireland's Blasket Islands during the early twentieth century.
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, published in 2016, is a biography of Jane Jacobs, one of the foremost urbanists of the 20th century. Kanigel's biography was longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction.
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