Lydia V. Pyne

Pyne credits her father, Stephen J. Pyne and her mother, Sonja,{{cite web |title=Stephen J. Pyne |url=http://www.stephenpyne.com/bio.htm |website=Stephen Pyne's website |accessdate=10 March 2020}} with encouraging her to pursue the sciences by being "curious about a lot of things". When she pursued higher education, Pyne was an English major. She ended up switching to anthropology and history, earning a double major in the subjects, both from Arizona State University.{{cite web |title=CV |url=http://www.pynecone.org/curriculumvita |website=Lydia Pyne |accessdate=10 March 2020}} She earned her master's from the University of Texas, Austin in anthropology and biology at Arizona State. For her PhD, she started as an archaeology student and in the end, earned a degree in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University.{{cite web |title=Father-daughter co-authors explore new approach to human origins |url=https://asunow.asu.edu/content/father-daughter-co-authors-explore-new-approach-human-origins |website=ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact |accessdate=10 March 2020 |language=en |date=26 October 2012}}

Pyne's first book was The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene was co-authored with her father, Stephen J. Pyne in 2012. That year, she served as a fellow at Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University.

Pyne's second book is Bookshelf, a history of the bookshelf, which was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury as part of their "Object Lessons" series. That same year,

Viking Press published Pyne's Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils. Seven Skeletons presents the history of "celebrity fossils" including Lucy and La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1.

In 2019, Pyne's book Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff was published by Bloomsbury. The book examines the difference between artificial and "real" things, such as real diamonds versus lab grown diamonds.

Currently, Pyne is a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Pyne is also a freelance writer. Her science and history writing has been published in Hyperallergic,{{cite web |title=Belated Acclaim for Dorothy Hood's Surreal Abstractions |url=https://hyperallergic.com/524646/dorothy-hood-illuminated-earth-mcclain-gallery/ |website=Hyperallergic |accessdate=8 March 2020 |date=15 November 2019}} the Pacific Standard{{cite news |last1=Pyne |first1=Lydia |title='Dinosaur Diplomacy': Andrew Carnegie Thought Fossils Could Save Europe From World War I |url=https://psmag.com/ideas/andrew-carnegies-quixotic-quest-to-use-dinosaurs-for-diplomacy |accessdate=8 March 2020 |work=Pacific Standard |language=en}} and Archaeology.{{cite web |last1=Pyne |first1=Lydia |title=Denisovans at Altitude - Archaeology Magazine |url=https://www.archaeology.org/issues/364-2001/features/8246-china-tibetan-plateau-denisovans |website=Archaeology |accessdate=8 March 2020}}

Pyne's two most recent books were published in 2021 and 2022. Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network was the first of these, published by Reaktion Books.{{Cite book |last=Pyne |first=Lydia V. |title=Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network |publisher=Reaktion |year=2021 |isbn=978-1789144840}} In it, Pyne investigates postcards in order "to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture."{{Cite web |date=18 October 2021 |title=Reaktion Books |url=http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789144840 |access-date=21 September 2022}} Endlings, published in August 2022, is part of the [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/forerunners-ideas-first Forerunners: Ideas First] series from University of Minnesota Press.{{Cite book |last=Pyne |first=Lydia |title=Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-5179-1483-7}} In this book, Pyne talks about how the stories we tell about endlings, or the last known individual of a species, draw from various narrative traditions and what those stories can tell us about grief and loss.

• with Stephen J. Pyne: {{cite book|title=The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene|publisher=Viking|year=2012}}{{cite web|title=Review of The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene by Lydia V. Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne|date=26 March 2012|website=Publishers Weekly|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-02363-9}} {{cite book|title=pbk edition|year=2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTeNDQAAQBAJ|isbn=978-0-14-312342-2|last1=Pyne|first1=Lydia|last2=Pyne|first2=Stephen J.|publisher=Penguin }}
• {{cite book|title=Bookshelf|publisher=Bloomsbury|series=Object Lessons (a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things)|year=2016}}{{cite web|title=The Meaning of a Bookshelf: An Interview with Lydia Pyne|date=29 January 2016|website=BookPeople|url=https://bookpeopleblog.com/2016/01/29/the-meaning-of-a-bookshelf-an-interview-with-lydia-pyne/}} {{cite book|title=pbk edition|year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HIU-CwAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-5013-0732-4|last1=Pyne|first1=Lydia|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }}
• {{cite book|title=Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils|publisher=Viking|year=2016|isbn=978-0-525-42985-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/sevenskeletonsev0000pyne|url-access=registration}}{{cite web|title=Review of Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne|year=2016|website=Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lydia-pyne/seven-skeletons/}}
• {{cite book|title=Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff|date=8 August 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmCWDwAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-4729-6182-2}}{{cite journal|title=Review of Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff by Lydia Pyne|date=14 June 2019|journal=Publishers Weekly|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4729-6182-2}}
• {{cite book|title=Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network|date=13 October 2021|publisher=Reaktion Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bvw8EAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1789144857}}
• {{cite book|title=Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene|date=16 August 2022|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/endlings|isbn=978-1-5179-1483-7}}

Pyne lives in Austin, Texas. She's an active member of the American Alpine Club.{{cite web |title=AAC Publications - Alam Kuh (4,805m) and Damavand (5,610m), AAC Exchange |url=http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12201220100/Asia-Middle-East-Iran-Alam-Kuh-4805m-and-Damavand-5610m-AAC-Exchange |website=American Alpine Club |accessdate=10 March 2020}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZXPAi9Eqqk Lydia Pyne's Talks at Google presentation] about Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff

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