Ed Regis, born 1944, still publishing: list of latest works. I only read Mambo Chicken & Nano but his other books look good too at first glance of this list.

Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study. Addison-Wesley. 1987. ISBN 0-201-12065-8.
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge. Henry Holt & Co. 1990. ISBN 0-201-09258-1.
Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology : Remaking the World-molecule by Molecule. Little, Brown. 1995. ISBN 9780316738583.
Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control. Pocket Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0671553616.
The Biology of Doom: America's Secret Germ Warfare Project. Henry Holt & Co. 1999. ISBN 0-8050-5765-X.
The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau. New York: W. W. Norton. 2003. ISBN 978-0393021233.
What is Life? Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008. ISBN 978-0-374-28851-8.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. With George M. Church. Basic Books. 2012. ISBN 978-0-465-02175-8.
Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology. Basic Books. 2015. ISBN 978-0-465-06594-3.
Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-4214-3303-5.