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Ann Druyan ( dree-ANN; born June 13, 1949) 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. 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. In the late 1970s, she became the creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, which produced the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. She also published a novel, A Famous Broken Heart, in 1977, and later co-wrote several best selling non-fiction books with Sagan.

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  • Full name: Ann Druyan
  • Born: 1949-06-13
  • Nationality: United States
  • Known as: Author
  • Wikidata ID: Q27167

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Who is Ann Druyan?

Ann Druyan ( dree-ANN; born June 13, 1949) is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science.

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Ann Druyan was born on 1949-06-13.

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