Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (October 28, 1932 – March 23, 2012)[1][2] was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.[3][4]
Biography
Gosnell graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University and also spent time at the Sorbonne in Paris.[1] She worked for Newsweek for twenty-five years, as medicine and science reporter[3] and editor,[1] additionally contributing to Smithsonian and National Wildlife.[4]
She died of cancer in March 2012.[1][3]
In July 2016, a New York Times journalist live-streamed the discovery of some slide photographs by the side of a New York City trash can, and in course of time discovered them to be Gosnell's original photographs.[5] The story was picked up by several online publications.[6][7][8]
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.[9]
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