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Ann Parson's most recent book about the workings of science -- The Proteus Effect; Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine (The National Academy of Sciences' Joseph Henry Press) -- was a 2004 finalist for a L.A. Times Book Prize in the science/technology category. Between 2008 and 2010, she took a slight detour, writing three histories for three New England families: An American Family, about the Lymans; The House That John Built, about the Pickerings of Salem; and A Beacon Hill Family, about the Wigglesworths. When, in the course of her research, she came across one Mary Pickering Lyman Wigglesworth, she knew she had come full circle and that it was time to return to science writing.
She is the coauthor of Decoding Darkness; The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease (Perseus Books, 2000) as well as Menopause (Times Books/Random House, 1996). From 1990 to 1998, she taught science writing in Boston University's graduate program in science journalism. Her articles have appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Harvard Health Letter, McCalls, Boston Review, the journal Cell, and many other publications. She is a member of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Assoc. of Science Writers (NASW), and its New England chapter, NESW, which she headed from 1995 to 1999. She is, as well, a “porch member” of the Center Harbor Yacht Club, Brooklin, Maine. The place she currently hangs her bicycle helmet: South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Ann B. Parson
 Don't wait to take the first step in a direction you know will satisfy you. - astrological forecast by Eugenia Last
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