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J. Peder Zane is a writer and editor who has worked at The New York Times and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina. He is now an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh. He is co-author, with Professor Adrian Bejan of Duke University, of “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology and Social Organization” (Doubleday, 2012). He also edited and contributed to two books published by W.W. Norton, "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books" (2007) and "Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading" (2004). His work has won several national awards including the Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is a former member of the Board of the National Book Critics Circle. He is a graduate of the Collegiate School, Wesleyan University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.