Margo Anderson (born August 13, 1967), formerly Mark Anderson, is an American journalist and book author.
Education Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in astrophysics.
Career Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international publications and media outlets.
Anderson's first book, "Shakespeare" by Another Name (Gotham Books, 2005), supports the Oxfordian theory that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare. The book is the first Oxfordian literary biography – connecting de Vere's life to Shakespeare's plays and poems.Hope, Warren; Holston, Kim. The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Authorship Theories, 2d ed. McFarland, 2009. pp. 130–132. Niederkorn, William S."The Shakespeare Code, and Other Fanciful Ideas From the Traditional Camp". The New York Times. August 30, 2005. Gilyeat, David. "Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford: The real Shakespeare?" BBC News. November 27, 2009. Morning Edition. "The Real Shakespeare? Evidence Points To Earl". NPR. July 4, 2008. Stewart, Doug. "To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare". Smithsonian. September 2006.
Anderson's second book, The Day the World Discovered the Sun (Da Capo Press, 2012), covers the historical adventures involved in, and the build-up surrounding, the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus. The book details, in addition to the myriad far-flung voyages to record the transits, the critical leaps in progress made in oceanic navigation, and in astronomical calculations such as the precise distance from the Earth to the Sun, during this fruitful period.Mirsky, Steve. "The Transit of Venus, Part 1". May 30, 2012. "The Transit of Venus, Part 2". May 31, 2012. ScientificAmerican.com.Dotinga, Randy. "How the transit of Venus opened the planet to our forefathers". The Christian Science Monitor. May 25, 2012.Cherry, Steven. "Transit of Venus: The Other Half of the Longitude Story". IEEE Spectrum. May 7, 2012. The book won the USA Best Book Award in the History: General category in 2013.
Anderson is news manager at IEEE Spectrum.
Personal life Anderson has a wife and children.
In September 2022 Anderson announced having transitioned as a transgender woman, with the name Margo Anderson.
Bibliography Anderson, Mark. Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare Gotham Books, 2005. Anderson, Mark. The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus. Da Capo Press, 2012.
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External links Official website