David Plotz
Plotz, an American journalist, has been a writer with Slate since its inception and was designated as the online magazine's editor in June 2008.
He is the author of "The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank" (2005) and "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned when I Read Every Single Word of the Bible" (2009).
“Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.”
David Plotz
“In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham's wife didn't like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog.”
David Plotz