Born in London in 1975, Tristan Donovan is a non-fiction author, journalist and editor who planned to become an ecologist before getting distracted by writing. His latest book is It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan. His first two books are Replay: The History of Video Games and Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World. That playing too many video games while drinking too much soda featured heavily in his childhood is just coincidence. His third book, Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle, finally put that ecology degree to use.
