Mars Beckons

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for The New York Times ) Wilford synthesizes myth, history, politics, and high technology in tracing man's relationship with Mars from antiquity to the present, and offers an informed vision of the future of Martian exploration. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

John Noble Wilford is a science correspondent for?The New York Times. His?professional career began in 1956 at the?Wall Street Journal, where he was a general assignment reporter and a medical reporter.?In 1962, he joined?Time?to work as a contributing science editor, then moved in 1965 to?The New York Times?to be a science reporter.?In 1969 he wrote the?New York Times?front-page article about?man's first walk on the moon. His was the only byline on the front page, beneath the headline "Men Walk On Moon" and under the subheading "A Powdery Surface is Closely Explored." In 2008 Wilford received?the University of Tennessee's Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award.?He lives in New York.