Charles R. Pellegrino (born May 5, 1953)[1] is an American writer and the author of several books related to science and archaeology including Her Name, Titanic (1988); Ghosts of the Titanic (2000); and To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (2015).
Pellegrino was born on May 5, 1953, to John and Jane Pellegrino.[2] He grew up in Queens, then at age 9 the family moved to Rockville Centre in Nassau County. At 15, Pellegrino was diagnosed with cancer and a rare genetic disease, Ankylosing spondylitis.[3]
During the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Island University. Pellegrino claimed to have received a PhD in 1982 from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. The university investigated and concluded that it had never awarded him a PhD.[4][5][6]
Career
Pellegrino was the first person to figure out how, using MRI technology, one could see inside of 70 million year old dinosaur eggs without cracking them.[7]Michael Crichton credits Pellegrino’s work and research as a paleontologist as part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park.[8]
He was the recipient of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award for Science Writing from The New York Science Fiction Society in 2000.[9] Pellegrino was a technical advisor to director James Cameron on the films Titanic and Avatar.[10][11]
Bibliography
Nonfiction
Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History (1983)[12]
Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)[13]
Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)[14]
Interstellar Travel and Communication (with James Powell, Isaac Asimov, et al., 1986)[15]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)[16]
Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship (1988)[17]
Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey (1991)[18]
Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists (1994)[19]
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History. Paperback ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1985. ISBN0-8306-1863-5
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Jesse A. Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life. 2d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1986. ISBN0-8306-2773-1
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Joshua. Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon. New York: Quill, 1999. ISBN0-380-80261-9
↑ Asimov, Pellegrino, Powell and others edited this work, which is a collection of papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science May 1986 symposium, Interstellar Travel and Communication. See: "Bibliography." In Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. Dyson Sphere. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN0-671-54173-0
↑ Stoff, Jesse A. and Pellegrino, Charles R. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic. 2d rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. ISBN0-06-092260-5
↑ Pellgrino, Charles R. Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. ISBN0-7090-4242-6
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey. New York: Vintage, 1993. ISBN0-679-73407-4
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists. 2d paperback ed. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. ISBN0-380-72633-5
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of the Titanic. New York: Avon, 2001. ISBN0-380-72472-3
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections. Paperback ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN0-06-075100-2
↑ Jacobovici, Simcha and Pellegrino, Charles R. The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History. Paperback ed. New York: HarperOne, 2008. ISBN0-06-120534-6
↑ Pellegrino, Charles R. Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. ISBN0-8050-8796-6
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