Margo Anderson (writer)

Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in astrophysics.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mark-anderson|title=Mark Anderson|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}

Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international publications and media outlets.

Anderson's first book, "Shakespeare" by Another Name (Gotham Books, 2005), supports the Oxfordian theory that the Elizabethan court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare. The book is the first Oxfordian literary biography – connecting de Vere's life to Shakespeare's plays and poems.

• Hope, Warren; Holston, Kim. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yOixVf5DG-IC&pg=PA130 The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Authorship Theories, 2d ed.] McFarland, 2009. pp. 130–132.
• Niederkorn, William S.[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/books/the-shakespeare-code-and-other-fanciful-ideas-from-the-traditional.html "The Shakespeare Code, and Other Fanciful Ideas From the Traditional Camp"]. The New York Times. August 30, 2005.
• Gilyeat, David. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8380000/8380564.stm27 "Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford: The real Shakespeare?"]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} BBC News. November 27, 2009.
• Morning Edition. [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236768 "The Real Shakespeare? Evidence Points To Earl"]. NPR. July 4, 2008.
• Stewart, Doug. [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/to-be-or-not-to-be-shakespeare-127247606/ "To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare"]. Smithsonian. September 2006.
• {{cite journal|last=Delahoyde|first=Michael|date=November 2006|title=Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604 / "Shakespeare" By Another Name / The Monument|journal=Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature|volume=60|issue=2|pages=52–59|doi=10.2307/4143858|jstor=4143858}}

Anderson's second book, The Day the World Discovered the Sun (Da Capo Press, 2012), covers the historical adventures involved in, and the build-up surrounding, the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus. The book details, in addition to the myriad far-flung voyages to record the transits, the critical leaps in progress made in oceanic navigation, and in astronomical calculations such as the precise distance from the Earth to the Sun, during this fruitful period.{{cite journal|title=Astronomy: On the track of the transit|first=Owen|last=Gingerich|date=May 17, 2012|journal=Nature|volume=485|issue=7398|pages=305–306|doi=10.1038/485305a|bibcode=2012Natur.485..305G |doi-access=free}}Mirsky, Steve. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-transit-of-venus-part-1-12-05-30/ "The Transit of Venus, Part 1"]. May 30, 2012.

[https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-transit-of-venus-part-2-12-05-31/ "The Transit of Venus, Part 2"]. May 31, 2012. ScientificAmerican.com.Dotinga, Randy. [http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0525/How-the-transit-of-Venus-opened-the-planet-to-our-forefathers "How the transit of Venus opened the planet to our forefathers"]. The Christian Science Monitor. May 25, 2012.Cherry, Steven. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510033446/http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/geek-life/profiles/transit-of-venus-the-other-half-of-the-longitude-story "Transit of Venus: The Other Half of the Longitude Story"]. IEEE Spectrum. May 7, 2012. The book won the USA Best Book Award in the History: General category in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.usabooknews.com/images/2013_Best_Book_Awards_Results.pdf|title=Congratulations to all of the Winners & Finalists of The 2013 USA Best Book Awards!|date=2013|work=USABookNews.com|pages=38|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}

Anderson is news manager at IEEE Spectrum.{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/st/about |website=IEEE Spectrum |access-date=October 5, 2022}}{{cite web |title=Margo Anderson |url=https://muckrack.com/margo-anderson-24 |website=Muck Rack |access-date=October 5, 2022}}

Anderson has a wife and children.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Margo |title=Hello, everyone. An announcement |url=https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6977292771279659008/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=October 4, 2022 |date=September 18, 2022}}

In September 2022 Anderson announced having transitioned as a transgender woman, with the name Margo Anderson.{{Cite tweet |author=Margo Anderson |user=margo_shehers |number=1571451322825580549 |title=Hello, Twitter. Making it official. My name is Margo, and my pronouns are she/her/hers. Thank you.}}

• Anderson, Mark. Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare Gotham Books, 2005. {{ISBN|1592402151}}
• Anderson, Mark. The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus. Da Capo Press, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0306820380}}

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• [http://www.markawriter.com Official website]

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