Author
Timothy Ferris is an American science author, journalist, and film producer and narrator. He is the best-selling author of 12 books, including Coming of Age in the Milky Way, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. His work has garnered an impressive array of awards, including the 1978 and 1989 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Awards. A former newspaper reporter and editor of Rolling Stone magazine, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His articles and essays have appeared in more than 50 periodicals, including National Geographic, Natural History, Nature, Scientific American, and The New York Times.
A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ferris served as a consultant to NASA on long-term space-exploration policy and produced the first phonograph record aimed specifically at an extraterrestrial audience: the golden record featuring recordings of Earth music and human language, which was launched aboard the twin Voyager spacecraft in 1977, now leaving solar system.
