A week ago I posted a book review of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. After a couple of emails I was lucky enough to get some time to discuss the book with its co-author Wendy Williams. Written with co-author Robert Whitcomb of the Providence Journal and published in May 2007, by Public Affairs Books Cape Wind lays out the machinations involved in trying to get the countries first offshore wind farm built.

Williams has been an investigative journalist and science writer for nearly 30 years. Her work has been published on the front pages of the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun and the Christian Science Monitor. She has written for a number of well-known magazines, including Scientific American, Science, National Audubon, National Wildlife, Africa Magazine, and many others. Her opinion columns have been published in at least 50 newspapers. She has also been a journalist-in-residence at Duke University, a fellow at the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics, at the Marine Biological Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. “Long ago, I was a reporter for a small community daily newspaper, the Cape Cod Times, where I won awards for my investigative journalism, including a series on child abuse in Massachusetts, which was much-acclaimed. I have authored several other books.” Said Williams.

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