Burr's March 2005 New Yorker article recounted Jean-Claude Ellena's year-long creation, in Paris and Grasse, of Hermès' Un Jardin sur le Nil. As a result, The New Yorker proposed that Burr describe the creation of a perfume. īurr's The Emperor of Scent, published in 2003, tells how the French-Italian scientist Luca Turin originated the theory about the functioning of the sense of smell. In 1996 The Weekly Standard published Burr's article 'Why Conservatives Should Embrace the Gay Gene', in which he argued that scientific research demonstrating that sexual orientation is biologically determined supports a conservative view of human nature.

A Separate Creation was published by Hyperion, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, and its argument that sexual orientation is inborn prompted a call by Southern Baptists to boycott Disney films and theme parks. The story became the basis for his first book A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation (1996), which investigated sexual orientation research. In 1993, Burr wrote a cover story, 'Homosexuality and Biology', for The Atlantic. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins. Burr earned a master's degree in international economics and Japan studies from the Paul H. Burr has also written for The Atlantic on epidemiology and public health. He began his journalism career in 1987 as a stringer in The Christian Science Monitor's Southeast Asia bureau, and later became a Contributing Editor to U.S. Chandler Burr is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.īorn in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C., Burr graduated from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.

The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr