Margaret Lazarus Dean is the author of the novel, TheTime It Takes to Fall (Simon and Schuster), and the book,Leaving Orbit : Notes from the Last Days of AmericanSpaceflight (Graywolf Press), which won the Graywolf PressNonfiction Prize. She is the co-author, with Scott Kelly, ofthe forthcoming memoir, Endurance: A Year in Space, ALifetime of Discovery (Knopf), be publishedOctober 17, 2017.

Dean is an Associate Professor and the Director forCreative Writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.She lives with her husband and son in Knoxville, TN.

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