Lydia V. Pyne

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Lydia V. Pyne
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Pyne at the Flaming Cliffs in 2017.
OccupationWriter
Historian [1]
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited States
Education University of Texas [1]
Alma mater Arizona State University [2]
GenreHistory
Non-fiction
SubjectScience
Website
www.pynecone.org

Lydia V. Pyne is an American historian and science writer. She is a current visiting fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. [3] Pyne and her work have been featured in National Geographic , [4] Inside Higher Education , [5] the Wall Street Journal , [6] and on ABC, [7] Science Friday , [8] WHYY, [9] KERA, [10] Wisconsin Public Radio, [11] and Talk Nerdy . [12]

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Early life and education

Pyne credits her father, Stephen J. Pyne and her mother, Sonja, [13] with encouraging her to pursue the sciences by being "curious about a lot of things". When she pursued higher education, Pyne was an English major. [1] She ended up switching to anthropology and history, earning a double major in the subjects, both from Arizona State University. [1] [14] She earned her master's from the University of Texas, Austin in anthropology and biology at Arizona State. [1] [14] For her PhD, she started as an archaeology student and in the end, earned a degree in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University. [1] [2]

Career

Pyne's first book was The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene was co-authored with her father, Stephen J. Pyne in 2012. [1] That year, she served as a fellow at Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. [12]

Pyne's second book is Bookshelf, a history of the bookshelf, which was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury as part of their "Object Lessons" series. [1] That same year, Viking Press published Pyne's Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils. Seven Skeletons presents the history of "celebrity fossils" including Lucy and La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1. [4]

In 2019, Pyne's book Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff was published by Bloomsbury. The book examines the difference between artificial and "real" things, such as real diamonds versus lab grown diamonds. [8]

Currently, Pyne is a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. [3] Pyne is also a freelance writer. Her science and history writing has been published in Hyperallergic , [15] the Pacific Standard [16] and Archaeology . [17]

Pyne's two most recent books were published in 2021 and 2022. Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network was the first of these, published by Reaktion Books. [18] In it, Pyne investigates postcards in order "to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture." [19] Endlings, published in August 2022, is part of the Forerunners: Ideas First series from University of Minnesota Press. [20] In this book, Pyne talks about how the stories we tell about endlings, or the last known individual of a species, draw from various narrative traditions and what those stories can tell us about grief and loss.

Works

Personal life

Pyne lives in Austin, Texas. [4] She's an active member of the American Alpine Club. [25]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Brenner, Wayne Alan. "The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Father-daughter co-authors explore new approach to human origins". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us about Real Stuff. 29 October 2019. ISBN   978-1-4729-6182-2 . Retrieved 10 March 2020.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. 1 2 3 Worrall, Simon (25 September 2016). "Meet 7 Celebrity Fossils and Find Out What Made Them Famous". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  5. ↑ McLemee, Scott. "Lydia Pyne, 'Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff' | Inside Higher Ed". Inside Higher Education. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Poole, Steven (10 December 2019). "'Genuine Fakes' Review: Not Quite the Real Thing". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Bookshelf - A History". Radio National. 6 September 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  8. 1 2 "In A World Of Lab-Grown Diamonds, What Is Real And Fake?". Science Friday. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "Fake vs. Real — And When It Matters". WHYY. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Famous Fossils". Think. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  11. ↑ Peterson, Tim (5 December 2019). "Fake Or Not? And Does It Matter?". Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  12. 1 2 "Talk Nerdy Episode 283 - Lydia Pyne". Talk Nerdy. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  13. ↑ "Stephen J. Pyne". Stephen Pyne's website. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  14. 1 2 "CV". Lydia Pyne. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  15. ↑ "Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood's Surreal Abstractions". Hyperallergic. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  16. ↑ Pyne, Lydia. "'Dinosaur Diplomacy': Andrew Carnegie Thought Fossils Could Save Europe From World War I". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  17. ↑ Pyne, Lydia. "Denisovans at Altitude - Archaeology Magazine". Archaeology. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  18. ↑ Pyne, Lydia V. (2021). Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network. Reaktion. ISBN   978-1789144840.
  19. ↑ "Reaktion Books". 18 October 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  20. ↑ Pyne, Lydia (2022). Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-1-5179-1483-7.
  21. ↑ "Review of The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene by Lydia V. Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne". Publishers Weekly. 26 March 2012.
  22. ↑ "The Meaning of a Bookshelf: An Interview with Lydia Pyne". BookPeople. 29 January 2016.
  23. ↑ "Review of Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne". Kirkus Reviews. 2016.
  24. ↑ "Review of Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff by Lydia Pyne". Publishers Weekly. 14 June 2019.
  25. ↑ "AAC Publications - Alam Kuh (4,805m) and Damavand (5,610m), AAC Exchange". American Alpine Club. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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