A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993. She is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action; The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection; The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest; The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design, and The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool.