Faith Hickman Brynie is the author of 25 books and hundreds of articles, most of
them related to science and health. She writes for children, teens, and adults--attempting
to share with readers of all ages some of the excitement she feels about research
in science and medicine.
She wrote in her latest book, Brain Sense:
I don't recall when I first fell in love with science, but I remember the day when
I said, "'Til death do us part." I was counting raspberry bushes. They grew wild
around the abandoned strip mines of Appalachia. As an ecology student at West Virginia
University in Morgantown, I was clambering around an old mine's precarious slopes
with twenty other eager undergraduates. We shot line transects and counted the bushes,
orienting our test sites by the compass, while measuring roped off segments ten-
Today Brynie's books are in libraries all over the world, and her articles appear
in numerous magazines and Web sites. Some of her books have earned awards from the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Science Teachers
Association, the Children's Book Council, the International Reading Association,
and more. She frequently contributes to elementary-
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Faith Brynie now writes a blog for
Psychology Today magazine.
Her blog, Brain Sense, explores new research
on the brain and the senses.
Read it here.
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