27 Facts About Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science.

Ann Druyan co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.

Ann Druyan is 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.

Ann Druyan published a novel, A Famous Broken Heart, in 1977, and later co-wrote several best selling non-fiction books with Sagan.

Ann Druyan was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Pearl A and Harry Druyan, who co-owned a knitwear firm.

Several revised versions of the series were later broadcast; one version, telecast after Sagan's death, opens with Ann Druyan paying tribute to her late husband and the impact of Cosmos over the years.

Ann Druyan wrote and produced the 1987 PBS NOVA episode "Confessions of a Weaponeer" on the life of President Eisenhower's Science Advisor George Kistiakowsky.

In 2000, Ann Druyan co-founded Cosmos Studios, Inc, with Joseph Firmage.

Ann Druyan is credited, with Carl Sagan, as the co-creator and co-producer of the 1997 feature film Contact.

In March 2020, a third season of Cosmos, named Cosmos: Possible Worlds, for which Ann Druyan was executive producer, writer, and director, premiered on National Geographic.

Ann Druyan co-wrote six New York Times bestsellers with Carl Sagan, including: Comet, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and The Demon-Haunted World.

Ann Druyan is co-author, along with Carl Sagan, F D Drake, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg and Linda Salzman Sagan, of Murmurs Of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.

Ann Druyan wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue of Billions and Billions.

Ann Druyan wrote the introduction to, and edited The Varieties of Scientific Experience, published from Sagan's 1985 Gifford lectures.

In February 2020, Ann Druyan published Cosmos: Possible Worlds, a companion volume to the television series of the same name, which premiered in March 2020.

Ann Druyan is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

Ann Druyan served as program director of the first solar-sail deep-space mission, Cosmos 1, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005.

Ann Druyan is a member of the advisory board of The Carl Sagan Institute.

Ann Druyan has for many years been a vocal advocate for nuclear disarmament.

Ann Druyan was arrested three times at the Mercury, Nevada nuclear test site during Mikhail Gorbachev's unilateral moratorium on underground nuclear testing, with which President Ronald Reagan did not cooperate.

Sagan, who attended the same protest with Ann Druyan, was not arrested.

Ann Druyan was a founding director of the Children's Health Fund until the spring of 2004, a project that provides mobile pediatric care to homeless and disadvantaged children in more than half a dozen cities.

Ann Druyan is currently a member of their advisory board.

Ann Druyan has been on the board of directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for over 10 years and was its president from 2006 to 2010.

In November 2006, Ann Druyan was a speaker at "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival".

In November 2007, Ann Druyan was awarded the title of "Humanist Laureate" by the International Academy of Humanism.

Ann Druyan gave Sasha a recurring role in Cosmos: Possible Worlds, where she played her own grandmother, including in the episode Man of a Trillion Worlds, which featured the life of Carl Sagan.