Penguin Speakers Bureau

Michael Willrich is the author of City of Courts, which won the John H. Dunning Prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book on any aspect of U.S. history, and the William Nelson Cromwell Prize awarded by the American Society for Legal History. Currently an associate professor of history at Brandeis University, he worked for several years as a journalist in Washington, D.C., writing for the Washington Monthly, the Washington City Paper, The New Republic, and other magazines. His book Pox: An American History was published in March 2011 by The Penguin Press.

"Willrich Receives Lawrence W. Levine Award for Pox: An American History"
Brandeis

"The Enduring Politics of Smallpox"
The Tyee

"Where Nonfiction Authors Get Ideas"
WBUR Radio

Pox Review
The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal

Pox Review
The New York Times Book Review

Michael Willrich Interview
WYPR Radio

"A Scar Nobly Got"
The Scientist

"Resistant"
The New Yorker

"Smallpox Wars"
WBUR's Radio Boston

Pox Review
The Commercial Dispatch

"Immunization Nation"
Philadelphia Citypaper

Michael Willrich Interview
KUOW Radio's The Conversation

Michael Willrich Discusses Pox
For Your Ears Only

"The Shot Heard Round the World"
The Wall Street Journal

"How The Pox Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules"
NPR's Fresh Air

"Why Parents Fear the Needle"
The New York Times

"Struggle to eradicate smallpox pitted public health against personal freedom"
The Seattle Times

"Smallpox history still resonates"
The Boston Globe

"Great reads: POX — a history of vaccine resistance"
Wired Magazine

POX Review
Publishers Weekly

POX Review
InfoDad.com