Margo Anderson (born August 13, 1967), formerly Mark Anderson, is an American journalist and book author.
Education
Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in
astrophysics.
Career
Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international publications and media outlets.
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Anderson's first book, ''"Shakespeare" by Another Name'' (]Gotham Books
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, 2005), supports the Oxfordian theory that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
. The book is the first Oxfordian literary biography When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for i ...
– connecting de Vere's life to Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays—as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise—is a ...
and poems.
Anderson's second book, ''The Day the World Discovered the Sun'' ( Da Capo Press, 2012), covers the historical adventures involved in, and the build-up surrounding, the 1761 and 1769
Events
January–March
* February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture i ...
transits of Venus
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A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a tran ...
. The book details, in addition to the myriad far-flung voyages to record the transits, the critical leaps in progress made in oceanic navigation, and in astronomical calculations such as the precise distance from the earth to the sun, during this fruitful period. The book won the USA Best Book Award in the History: General category in 2013.
Anderson is news manager at ''IEEE Spectrum
''IEEE Spectrum'' is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The first issue of ''IEEE Spectrum'' was published in January 1964 as a successor to ''Electrical Engineering''. The magazine contains peer-reviewe ...
''.
Personal life
Anderson has a wife and children.
Bibliography
*Anderson, Mark. ''Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare'' Gotham Books, 2005.
*Anderson, Mark. ''The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus''. Da Capo Press, 2012.
References
External links
Official website
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Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
1967 births
Living people
American biographers
Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts
Shakespeare authorship theorists
20th-century American journalists