Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel, a former science reporter for The New York Times, is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, and most recently The Glass Universe. She has also co-authored six books, including Is Anyone Out There?, with astronomer Frank Drake. Ms. Sobel has written and hosted two five-part series for the BBC World Service: Stargazing and The Sun, Our Star. A staged production of her play about Copernicus, And the Sun Stood Still, was supported by the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has enjoyed teaching science writing at the University of Chicago, Mary Baldwin College, and Smith College. In addition to her current book project, tentatively titled At Mme. Curie’s Lab, Ms. Sobel edits the Meter poetry column published monthly in Scientific American.