Gwyneth Cravens

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Gwyneth Cravens is an American novelist and journalist. To date, she has published five novels. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, where she also worked as a fiction editor, and in Harper’s Magazine, where she was an associate editor. She has contributed articles and editorials on science and other topics to Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

At a September, 2007 seminar given by the Long Now Foundation, Cravens outlined the message of her newest book, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. Released in October 2007, it argues for nuclear power as a safe energy source and an essential preventive of global warming.

In 1974, Cravens and the humorist Henry Beard formed a long-term relationship.^[1]^[2]^[3]

[edit] Bibliography

The Black Death (1977)
Speed of Light (1980)
Love and Work (1982)
Heart’s Desire (1986)
Gates of Paradise (1990)
Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy (2007)

[edit] References

^ Hendra, Tony (June 1, 2002). "Morning in America: the rise and fall of the National Lampoon". Harper's. (Subscription required.)
^ Karp, Josh (2006). A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. Chicago Review Press, 201. ISBN 978-1-55652-602-2.
^ Lovenheim, Barbara. "Keen Observation Pays Off for Author", The New York Times, June 30, 1991. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.