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Mariana Gosnell

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Died
  
23 March 2012

Education
  
Ohio Wesleyan University

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Books
  
Zero 3 Bravo, Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance, Zero Three Bravo

Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (died March 23, 2012, aged 79) was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.

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Biography

Gosnell graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University and also spent time at the Sorbonne in Paris. She worked for Newsweek Magazine for 25 years, as medicine and science reporter and editor, additionally contributing to Smithsonian and National Wildlife.

She died after several months' illness from cancer.

In July 2016, a New York Times journalist live-streamed the discovery of some slide photographs by the side of a New York trash can, and in course discovered them to be Gosnell's original photographs. The story was picked up by several online publications.

Works

  • Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane. Touchstone, 1994.
  • Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • References

    Mariana Gosnell Wikipedia