Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the wife of late scientist and educator Carl Sagan. Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the writers for the television series Cosmos and a producer for the film Contact. She is the CEO and co-founder of Cosmos Studios. In 2007, she was said to be working on an IMAX film on global warming as well as a sequel to Cosmos. In 2009, she released a series of podcasts entitled At Home in... the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she describes in detail the life of husband Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage. In 2011, it was announced that she would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to Cosmos, Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which was expected to air in 2013. Druyan and Sagan co-wrote the books Comet, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and sections of The Demon-Haunted World. She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's The Cosmic Connection, the epilogue to Billions and Billions, and her solo novel A Famous Broken Heart.
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