Marianne Dyson is an author and former NASA flight controller. Her children's books have won the NSTA Best STEM book, SCBWI Golden Kite, & AIP science communications award. Her science fiction is science-based.
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Marianne Dyson went from being one of the first female flight controllers for NASA to writing and speaking about space for adults and children.
Birth Place
Canton, OH
Accomplishments
Dyson's children's books, two co-authored with Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, have won top awards for nonfiction including the NSTA's Best STEM Book Award, the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, the SCBWI's Golden Kite Award for best nonfiction children's book of 1999. She was awarded the AnLab Readers Best Fact Article Award in 2018.
Additional Information
Please visit Marianne's home page (www.MarianneDyson.com) to check for her latest publications, appearances, activities for kids, and link to her blog. You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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