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Ann Druyan, born on 13 June 1949 in Queens, is an American journalist, film producer, writer and science fiction writer. She speaks English and follows atheism. Druyan received the Richard Dawkins Award and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. She was married to Carl Sagan, with whom she had a child, Sasha Sagan. Her written works include Cosmos, Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. She has said, "The vastness of the universe-and love, the thing that makes the vastness bearable-is out of reach to the arrogant."
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- Born
- 1949
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Shadows of Fotgotten Ancestors
- Cosmos
- Comet
- Cosmos
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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Film & TV
Queens, New York, USA
Ann Druyan is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She was a co-writer of the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.
Known for
- Bill Nye: Science Guy — Self2017
- Cosmos2014
- The Heart is a Drum Machine — Self2010
- Real Time with Bill Maher — Self2003
- Contact — Ann Druyan1997
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- Born
- ( 1949-06-13 ) June 13, 1949 (age 76) , New York City , U.S.
- Known for
- Author, activist , producer
- Spouse
- Carl Sagan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; died 1996 )
- Children
- 2, including Sasha
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- human
- Given name
- Ann
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Spouse
- Carl Sagan
- Occupation
- television director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Image
- Ann Druyan 1.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1949-06-13
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- Ann Druyan
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Encyclopedic overview
Ann Druyan (/driːˈæn/ dree-ANN; born June 13, 1949) is an American documentary producer and director 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 was the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name. She directed episodes of both series.
In the late 1970s, she became the creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, which produced the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. She also published a novel, A Famous Broken Heart, in 1977, and later co-wrote several best selling non-fiction books with Sagan.
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