Joan Slonczewski
Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011).
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- Born in
- Hyde Park
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaBryn Mawr CollegeJohn Jay High School
- Awards
- 🏆 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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1956
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