James Nestor
Journalist and science author
James Nestor is an American journalist and author of the international bestseller Breath, a book about how humans breathe and how to do it better.
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American Born in Tustin, United States
About James Nestor
James Nestor is an American journalist and author. His articles have appeared in Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic and The New York Times. He was born in Tustin, California. His 2020 book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art spent 18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in its first year. It won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for best general nonfiction book of 2020. In it, Nestor travels the world to investigate how people lost the ability to breathe well and what can be done about it. His earlier book was Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, published in 2014.