Ann Druyan

American author and producer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1949 · age 77

Ann Druyan is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.

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2021Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAward2020“We have the means to get through these terrible troubles, but we have to get our act together,” Druyan insists.”In their wordsInterview (2020)Read the whole statement

“We all feel the chill our present casts on our future.”In their wordsCosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)Read the whole statement

“The vastness of the universe-and love, the thing that makes the vastness bearable-is out of reach to the arrogant.”In their wordsCosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)Read the whole statement

“The basic rules of the road for science: Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail.”In their wordsCosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)Read the whole statement

“These are stories that make me more optimistic about our future.”In their wordsCosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)Read the whole statement

“Carl made me want to be the best human being I could be.”In their wordsCosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)Read the whole statement

2004Richard Dawkins AwardAward1998Hugo Award for Best Dramatic PresentationAward1949Born13 June 1949

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Late husband Carl Sagan

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan in Sydney

Druyan in 2008

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Ann Druyan

4 statements, newest first

In that photo ("Pale Blue Dot"), the inner meaning of four centuries of astronomical research is suddenly available to all of us at a glance.
2020 · Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020), Own words
Science, like love, is a means to that transcendence, to that soaring experience of the oneness of being fully alive.
2020 · Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020), Own words
The possible world that excites me the most-the future we can still have on this one. The misuse of science endangers our civilization, but science also has redemptive powers.
2020 · Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020), Own words

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Awards

Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel2021

Richard Dawkins Award2004

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation1998

Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

About this person

She was the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name. She directed episodes of both series.

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United States