Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (October 28, 1932 – March 23, 2012)
was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from
Columbus, Ohio
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.
Biography
Gosnell graduated ''cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from
Ohio Wesleyan University
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and also spent time at the
Sorbonne in Paris.
She worked for ''
Newsweek
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'' for twenty-five years, as medicine and science reporter
and editor,
additionally contributing to ''Smithsonian'' and ''National Wildlife''.
She died of cancer in March 2012.
In July 2016, a ''
New York Times
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'' journalist
live-streamed the discovery of some slide photographs by the side of a
New York City
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trash can, and in course of time discovered them to be Gosnell's original photographs. The story was picked up by several online publications.
Works
*''Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane''. Touchstone, 1994.
*''Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance''. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
References
Further reading
Review of "Ice" in the New York Times
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1932 births
2012 deaths
American science journalists
American women journalists
American women writers
Newsweek people
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
21st-century American women