Ms. Ann Druyan is an author, writer and television producer. She was co-writer of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning
television series COSMOS, and served as creative director of the NASA project to design a complex message consisting of
music, images and ideas for possible alien civilizations that was placed aboard the Voyager I and 2 interstellar spacecraft.
She also wrote and produced the PBS NOVA episode "Confessions of a Weaponeer", on the life of President Eisenhower's
science advisor, George Kistiakowsky.
Ms. Druyan is the author or co-author of several books, including Comet, and, most recently, Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Reader's Digest, Parade, Discover,
Explorers Journal, and the Saturday Evening Post.
Ms. Druyan serves as secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, an organization of five thousand scientists and
engineers, including fifty Nobel Laureates. She also directs the New York Children's Health Fund, a project that provides
mobile pediatric care to homeless and disadvantaged children in more than half-a dozen cities.
Ann Druyan link :
F.A.S. Public Interest Report (Journal of the Federation of American Scientists)
