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Ken Mallory Personal statement prepared for the Aquarius mission I come from a family of academics and researchers in medicine and especially in the study of disease called pathology. Early on I realized I was not temperamentally suited for the research lab and therefore tried to find other ways to explore science through my interest in languages and English. I found that science journalism allowed me more freedom to explore lots of different areas of science after many years exploring television journalism, newspaper writing, the book publishing business and finally magazine journalism. I liked to study an issue in depth and thoroughly and thus found books and magazines my favorite medium. I spent some time writing articles for ocean related magazines such as Oceans, Sea Frontiers, and International Wildlife. That led to a position at the New England Aquarium where I began writing text for exhibits and then used the research I had done for exhibits to produce magazines and ultimately children's books. My background in biology and pre medical studies combined with English Literature provided the tools to produce the kinds of children's books I have been writing for the last 10 years and more. Summers spent around the ocean in Mt. Desert Island Maine and mentors who were marine biology teachers, photographers, and writers have kept me focused on a writing career which I find is an unending source of learning and discovery. I was especially influenced by my mother who earned her Ph.D. in zoology but never went on to a career in science. I feel I am fulfilling a part of her dream. Professional biography Kenneth Mallory is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Programs at the New England Aquarium. While he has been at the Aquarium he has written six and helped develop fifteen non-fiction photo children's books through such publishers as Simon and Schuster, Crown, Charlesbridge, Franklin Watts, and Harcourt Brace. As a developer and manager of the Lowell Lecture series, he also co-edited a book of essays with Dr. Les Kaufman on the threats to worldwide biodiversity called The Last Extinction published by the MIT Press. Besides book publishing responsibilities, he is manager and developer of special annual Aquarium events that include the Environmental Writers' Festival, Women in Science, and most recently the World of Water Film Festival. Mallory holds a B.A. in English literature from Harvard College where he was pre-med. He is an accomplished photographer and has used his skills to contribute to the books he writes, to Aquarium exhibits, and to the Aquarium's home page, which he helps develop and oversees. In an earlier part of his career at the Aquarium, he was the editor of their membership magazine Aquasphere and has acted as editor for special issues on the oceans of Sea Frontiers magazine and the Kansas City Zoo (Zoomin' magazine). Authorship information *Co-author with Andrea Conley of a children's book published by Simon and Schuster entitled Rescue of the Stranded Whales, the story of three juvenile pilot whales rescued from a mass stranding in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, brought back to the New England Aquarium, and released 6 months later to the wild. "Rescue" was awarded an "Outstanding Nature Book for Children" by the John Burroughs Association in 1989 and selected as one of 28 "International Reading Association Young Adults' Choices for 1991" (newly published books chosen by young adults as their favorite books). It was also selected as "Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children in 1989" by the joint committee of the Children's Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association. * Author of The Red Sea, a Franklin Watts children's book about life in the Red Sea's coral reefs published in 1991. * Author of Water Hole: Life in a Rescued Tropical Forest published by Franklin Watts in 1992, a story about life in the tropical dry forest of Santa Rosa National Park in Costa Rica featuring his and his wife's photographs. * Co-author with Scott Kraus of Search for the Right Whale, published by Crown Books for Young Readers as part of their Face to Face with Science Series; this book was given a Library Journal starred review and selected as one of the 60 best children's books in 1993. * Author of an illustrated children's book Families of the Deep Blue Sea, published by Charlesbridge Publishers of Watertown, MA, in 1995 * Author and photographer for A Home by the Sea: Protecting Coastal Wildlife, published last September by Harcourt Brace publishers, selected as a notable book for children in 1998 by Smithsonian magazine. Also selected as an "Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children in 1998" by the joint committee of the Children's Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association * Co-editor with Les Kaufman of a 1986 New England Aquarium/MIT Press book called The Last Extinction, an anthology of articles about the threat of biological mass extinction facing the world today. Library Journal selected The Last Extinction as one of the 100 most important scientific/technical books of 1986. A second edition of The Last Extinction, was published in 1993. |
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