About Deborah Halber, Boston science writer

Deborah Halber started out as a daily newspaper reporter then turned to the dark side to do public relations for Tufts and other universities. As a science writer at MIT, she chronicled everything from quantum weirdness (that’s the technical term) to snail slime. Her narrative nonfiction book published by Simon & Schuster, THE SKELETON CREW: HOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ARE SOLVING AMERICA’S COLDEST CASES, inspired the crime drama ULTRAVIOLET, produced by Sony-owned AXN in Poland and picked up by Netflix. A member of the National Association of Science Writers and president of New England Science Writers, she also writes about true crime or anything involving moldy dead things.

Author photo by Margaret Lampert