K.C. Cole
| K.C. Cole | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 22, 1946 |
| Occupation | Writer, author, radio commentator, and professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Barnard College |
| Subject | Science |
| Notable works | The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up |
| Notable awards | American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award |
K.C. Cole (born August 22, 1946) is an American science writer, author, radio commentator, and professor. She has authored 8 nonfiction books, notably the bestseller The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, which has been translated into a dozen languages, and her memoir about her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up. In 1995, she was awarded the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and has covered science for The Los Angeles Times since 1994. She is currently a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Cole is a resident of Santa Monica, California, United States.
Cole grew up in multiple locations including Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Port Washington, New York. She studied political science at Barnard College, where she received her B.A. In 1968, she traveled to Eastern Europe, living in Czechoslovakia just one year after the Warsaw Pact invasion. She went to work for Radio Free Europe, beginning her career in journalism, and published her first article in the New York Times Magazine in 1970 titled, "Prague, Two Years After." The article covered life after the invasion.
After living for several years in Eastern Europe, Cole moved back to the United States to San Francisco, where she took a position at the Saturday Review as an editor and writer. In the late 1970s, she also worked as an editor and writer for Newsday, where she wrote on subjects from politics to travel, women's issues, and education. Her articles also appeared in such publications as Omni, People, Glamour, Psychology Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Seventeen, and The New York Daily News.
Cole’s first foray into novel writing focused on issues of feminism and motherhood. In 1980, Doubleday published her novel, What Only a Mother Can Tell You About Having a Baby. And in 1982, Doubleday published her book, Between the Lines: Searching for the Space Between Feminism and Femininity and Other Tight Spots in 1982. Both books were well-received with a write-up in TIME Magazine for the former and a series of articles published in The Milwaukee Journal concerning the latter.
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