Mary Losure writes innovative nonfiction, mostly for kids. Her current project (which turned out to be for adults) has the working title Disguised Animals: Darwin and His Family Explore the Hidden Lives of Plants.  It’s the story of Charles Darwin, his son Francis, and their botanical experiments.

Her books have been praised in The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal, and other publications. Her most recent one, Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d (Candlewick, February 2017), received three starred reviews and was honored in “best of” lists for both science writing and nonfiction.

Before she began writing for children, she was an award-winning environmental reporter for Minnesota Public Radio as well as a freelance  contributor to National Public Radio and was the author of a book published by the University of Minnesota Press, Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State.

Along with writing narrative nonfiction, she also makes occasional appearances in the guise of a travelling alchemist. She was honored to be invited to the amazing Gravity Fields Festival, a celebration of the life of Isaac Newton held every two years in Grantham, England.

(Photo by Ruth Crook)

 If you are interested in having her visit your school, please contact her through this website.

(photo by Don Losure)