Dava Sobel

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Dava Sobel — Dava Sobel Menu Self-Portrait I have spent my entire professional life writing, including two years as a staff reporter in the Science News department of The New York Times. New York City born and raised, I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo and the Botanical Gardens, and attended the Bronx High School of Science (class of 1964). I was a lost soul in college (several changes of majors at three different schools). Fortunately for me, no one around me thought it odd or ill-fated for a girl to be interested in science. Working freelance for a variety of magazines kept me busily employed until the publication of Longitude in 1995—and its unexpected success—allowed me t

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