Dan Linehan
In 2000, Dan Linehan switched careers from scientific researcher and engineer to full-time writer and editor. Focusing on creativity, education, and outreach using multiplatform storytelling, he is widely published—in many forms of writing that include poetry and fiction—and has won awards for his work. Video, photog.... more
In 2000, Dan Linehan switched careers from scientific researcher and engineer to full-time writer and editor. Focusing on creativity, education, and outreach using multiplatform storytelling, he is widely published—in many forms of writing that include poetry and fiction—and has won awards for his work. Video, photography, and other visualizations often play important roles.
He has authored two highly illustrated nonfiction books that cover historical and technological aspects of aerospace and space tourism, SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History (Zenith Press, 2008), which has a forward by sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations (Zenith Press, 2011).
Dan has worked for a film studio, a literary journal, a national laboratory, and leading educational publishers. As a writer, he explored Antarctica and the surrounding regions from 2006 to 2007 and lived in Argentina from 2013 to 2014. The Princess of the Bottom of the World was inspired by these travels.