Timothy Ferris's eleven books include Seeing in the Dark, The Whole Shebang, and Coming of Age in the Milky Way, which have been translated into fifteen languages and were named by The New York Times as among the leading books published in the twentieth century. A former newspaper reporter and editor of Rolling Stone magazine, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His articles and essays have appeared in over 50 periodicals, among them the Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes, Harper's, Life, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature, Newsweek, Time, Readers' Digest, Scientific American, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times.
Ferris wrote and narrated two television specials - “The Creation of the Universe,” which has aired in network prime time annually for the past 15 years, and “Life Beyond Earth,” which premiered on PBS Nov. 10, 1999. He produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilization containing music, sounds of Earth and encoded photographs launched aboard the Voyager interstellar spacecraft, and was among the journalists selected as candidates to fly aboard the Space Shuttle in 1986. Ferris has received the American Institute of Physics prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Professor Ferris has taught in five disciplines at four universities. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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