Marianne Jakmides Dyson is a writer of non-fiction books, mostly for children, about space science. She grew up in Canton, Ohio, lives in Houston and has worked for NASA.
Her book Space Station Science: Life in Free Fall was a Golden Kite Award winner in the year 2000. Her book "Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier" won the American Institute of Physics Science Communications Award in 2004.https://www.aip.org/aip/awards/science-communication/children?page=2 List of AIP Award Winnershttp://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_57808.html Interview with American Institute of Physics The first book she coauthored with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, was named a Best STEM book by the National Science Teachers Association.http://www.nsta.org/publications/stembooks/stembooks2017.aspx NSTA Best STEM Book List for 2017
Bibliography
Fireworks in Orbit (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1990) The Critical Factor (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1992) The Shape of Things to Come (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1996) Finding Homework Help On The Internet (Scholastic, 2000) Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier, ed. Jennifer Emmett (National Geographic, 2003) The Space Explorer's Guide to Out-Of-This-World Science with Hena Khan (2004) The Space Explorer's Guide to Stars and Galaxies (Scholastic, 2004) Space Station Science: Life In Free Fall foreword by Buzz Aldrin (Scholastic, 1999, 2nd ed. Windward, 2004) Twentieth-century Space And Astronomy: A History of Notable Research And Discovery, ed. William J. Cannon (Facts On File, 2007) Fly Me To The Moon (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2010) Dyson's Space Poems (2011) The Right Path and Zeus's Eagle (2011) Science Fiction Versus the Real Thing: What I learned on NASA's Vomit Comet (2012) The Callahan Kids: Tales of Life on Mars (Marianne J. Dyson, contributor) (2013) Fly Me to the Moon and Other Stories (2015) Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne J. Dyson (National Geographic, 2015)
"To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure" by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne J. Dyson with art by Bruce Foster (National Geographic, 2018)https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/75933-fall-2018-children-s-sneak-previews.html Publishers Weekly 2018 Fall Preview Trajectories (Marianne J. Dyson, contributor), ed. Dave Creek
References
External links Marianne Dyson's Website About Marianne Dyson