An avid eclipse chaser, David has crossed the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia to stand in the moon’s shadow and witness nature’s grandest spectacle: a total eclipse of the sun. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. His 2003 book, The Beast in the Garden, received the Colorado Book Award.ĭavid’s book, American Eclipse (2017), arose from his own eccentric passion. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. David’s written work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Outside, Lonely Planet, and Reader’s Digest. duPont Award from Columbia University, the National Academies Communications Award, and, on three occasions, the annual journalism prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These include the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Alfred I. In the course of his reporting, David has visited every continent and earned some of the top honors in journalism. By David Baron Total eclipse of the sun as observed July 29. Journalist David Baron follows the inspiring stories of intrepid astronomer James Craig Watson, pioneering scientist Maria Mitchell, and prolific inventor Thomas Edison with the dramatic pacing of a novel. The Eclipse That Made America Great The solar eclipse of 1878 was a chance for the young nation’s scientists to finally shine. Following three characters across the plains to. He has worked as a science correspondent for NPR and Boston’s WBUR, and as health and science editor for the PRI/BBC program The World. American Eclipse tells the thrilling tale of three bold American researchers who raced to study the total solar eclipse of 1878. American Eclipse deconstructs the eclipse to its earthly ties while lacing mid-America to the moon and back. David Baron is a journalist, author, and broadcaster who has spent his thirty-year career largely in public radio.

American Eclipse by David Baron