Michael Sims

2017 - www.goodreads.com/book/show/30038995-arthur-and-sherlock Arthur and Sherlock (Bloomsbury)

2014 - "The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond" (Bloomsbury USA)

2011 - The Story of Charlotte's Web (Walker) subtitle "E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic"

2011 - The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Penguin Classics)

2011 - "The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories", Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Walker & Company)

2010 – Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Walker & Company)

2009 – In the Womb: Animals (National Geographic Books), linked to a documentary series on the National Geographic Channel

2009 – The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Penguin Classics)

2007 – Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination (Viking); U.S. paperback (Penguin) subtitle "A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day"

2007 – Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, by Maurice Leblanc, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Penguin Classics)

2006 – The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Michael Sims (Penguin Classics)

2003 - Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Viking; published in England by Allen Lane/Penguin, with the subtitles "A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Body" and "The Weird and Wonderful Story of the Human Body")

Sims published his first book, Darwin's Orchestra, in 1997, about which Martin Gardner wrote, "Sims's range is awesome." But it was Sims's second book, Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, in 2003, that established his reputation as an original and witty observer of the natural world. Published simultaneously in the U.S. and England, it was chosen as a Library Journal Best Science Book and a New York Times Notable Book. In 2007 Viking published Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, which National Public Radio chose as one of the best science books of the year. In 2009 National Geographic Books published In the Womb: Animals, a companion book to two installments of the acclaimed In the Womb series on the National Geographic Channel.

1997 - Darwin’s Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts (Henry Holt)

Michael Sims (born February 17, 1958 in Crossville, TN) is a noted American nonfiction writer, author most recently of The Story of Charlotte's Web (2011). His other nonfiction books include In the Womb: Animals (2009), Apollo’s Fire (2007), Adam's Navel (2003), and Darwin's Orchestra (1997). He is also an acclaimed anthologist, editor of several volumes of Victorian and Edwardian fiction and poetry. Sims's nonfiction books have received critical acclaim in every English-speaking country as well as in translation in Europe and Asia.