Chandler Burr (born December 30, 1963) is an American journalist and author, best known for his science writing. Burr achieved critical success with The Emperor of Scent (2003), a book-length account of a renegade scientist's efforts to decode the sense of smell. December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air (or, by animals that breathe water, in water). ...

Burr's first book, A Separate Creation (1996), summarized research on the biological origins and explanations of homosexuality. Published by Hyperion, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, the book prompted a call by Southern Baptists to boycott[1] (http://www.chandlerburr.com/separate/boycott/index.html) Disney films and theme parks. Some Christians were offended by the book's title and contents, which points to strong scientific evidence of inborn and innate origins for homosexuality, factors similar (for example) to those contributing to left-handedness. Alternate meanings: Disney (disambiguation) The Walt Disney Company (also known as Disney Enterprises, Inc. ... People who are left-handed are more dextrous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. ...

Born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C., Burr was a correspondent in the late 1980s for The Christian Science Monitor in Asia, and later became a Contributing Editor to U.S. News and World Report. Burr has contributed articles to The Atlantic, The Lancet, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He lives in New York City. The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper published daily, Monday through Friday. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... The Lancet is a British medical journal, published weekly by the Lancet Publishing Group. ... Alternative meaning: The Washington Post (march) Washington Post logo Screenshot from Washington Post website The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C. It gained worldwide fame in the early 1970s for its Watergate investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein which played a major role... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted each year on the magazines anniversary. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

External links

• Official website (http://www.chandlerburr.com/)
• Homosexuality and left-handedness (book excerpt from A Separate Creation) (http://www.chandlerburr.com/separate/excerpts/1/)
• Narrative Magazine (fiction excerpt) (http://www.narrativemagazine.com/105/burr.pdf)
• Burr reads from The Emperor of Scent (http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0303/burr/burr_audio.mp3)]
• article in The New Yorker (the making of the new Hermès scent) (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/index.ssf?050314fa_fact)