Author

Books by Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and author who spent most of his career at Cornell University. He contributed to NASA's early planetary missions and was a key figure in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. His television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, broadcast in 1980, reached an estimated 500 million viewers and remains one of the most-watched science documentaries ever made. His other books include Cosmos, Contact, Pale Blue Dot, and Broca's Brain. Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden in 1978. He died of pneumonia in 1996 while completing this book with his wife Ann Druyan.