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Barry Werth
Author
Barry Werth is an award-winning journalist and the acclaimed author of six books. His most recent book is The Antidote, a close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of pharma that it inhabits. His previous book, Banquet at Delmonico’s, was named one of Barnes & Noble’s top ten nonfiction books of 2009 and one of Amazon’s top ten history books of the year.