Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She was a co-writer of the 1980 PBS documentary series "Cosmos," hosted by the late Carl Sagan whom she married in 1981. She is the creator/producer/writer of the follow-up, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

She was in charge of music selections that were included with the pioneer spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, and a producer for the motion picture "Contact."

Druyan is the chief executive officer and the co-founder of Cosmos Studios. In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called "At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan" in which she described her works, the life of her husband, Carl Sagan, and their marriage.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to" Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," to be called "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," which began airing in March 2014.

Druyan and Sagan cowrote the books "Comet," "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and sections of "The Demon-Haunted World." She also wrote the updated introduction to Sagan's book "The Cosmic Connection," the epilogue of "Billions and Billions," and her own novel, "A Famous Broken Heart."

Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for over 10 years and was president from 2006 to 2010.

In November 2006, Druyan was a speaker at Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival.

In January 2007, she was a juror at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, responsible for selecting the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for films about science and technology.