NEW YORK (AP) — One of the first book-length inside accounts of the coronavirus pandemic will be coming out in June.
Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year,” which builds on a New Yorker story that ran earlier this month, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 8. Wright told The Associated Press that he interviewed more than 100 people for the story, including such top government health officials as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.
“The Plague Year” will document what he calls “the shocking failure” of the U.S. to contain the virus, which has killed over 400,000 people across the country.
Knopf is calling it an “an all-encompassing account” covering everything from the virus’ origins to the development of vaccines and nature of the disease itself.
