Ann Druyan
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Ann Druyan, Executive Producer and Writer of COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey, accepts the Peabody with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mitchell Cannold and Brannon Braga.
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June 13, 1949 Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Known for | Author, activist, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Carl Sagan (1981–1996; his death) |
| Children | Alexandra Rachel "Sasha" Druyan Sagan (1982) Samuel Democritus Druyan Sagan (1991) |
Ann Druyan (/ˈdri.æn/ DREE-an; born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American writer and Peabody Award-winning producer specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
She was the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Druyan was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Pearl A. (née Goldsmith) and Harry Druyan, who co-owned a knitware firm.
Druyan's first novel, A Famous Broken Heart, was published in 1977.
Druyan co-wrote six New York Times best-sellers with Carl Sagan, including: Comet,Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and The Demon-Haunted World. She is co-author, along with Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg and Linda Salzman Sagan, of Murmurs Of Earth : The Voyager Interstellar Record. She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection, and the epilogue of Billions and Billions. She edited and wrote the introduction to a book of Sagan's 1985 Gifford lectures, The Varieties of Scientific Experience.
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