Tom Zeller Jr.

Tom Zeller Jr. is an American journalist, former New York Times reporter and columnist, and current editor in chief of the digital science magazine Undark. His debut book, The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Condition (HarperCollins/Mariner in July, 2025), is part memoir, part scientific whodunnit, and ultimately the author's quest for the origins of his own headaches. Along the way, it becomes a journey into the inner workings of the human nervous system and an illuminating look at the nature of pain itself. At times harrowing, and at others, hilarious, the book has been heralded as "required reading for anyone with a head." (—Mary Roach)

Tom was born in northeastern Ohio, studying English and Political Science at Cleveland Stat

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