Mariana Gosnell
Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (died March 23, 2012, aged 79)[1] was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.[2][3]
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 Magazine for 25 years, as medicine and science reporter[2] and editor,[1] additionally contributing to Smithsonian and National Wildlife.[3]
She died after several months' illness from cancer.[1][2]
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.[4] The story was picked up by several online publications.[5][6][7]
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.[8]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Mariana Eleanor Gosnell's Obituary on This Week Community Newspapers".
- 1 2 3 "Mariana GOSNELL - Obituaries - Kenora, ON - Your Life Moments".
- 1 2 "Mariana Gosnell - Penguin Random House".
- ↑ "Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery". The New York Times. 13 July 2016.
- ↑ "The Mystery of an Abandoned Bag of Kodachrome Slides in NYC". 15 July 2016.
- ↑ "Reconstructing a life: Journalist finds discarded slides and live streams the ensuing mystery".
- ↑ "How The New York Times solved a mystery with the help of Facebook Live". 15 July 2016.
- ↑ http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo5460653.html