title: Mariana Gosnell
text: # Mariana Gosnell
  
  Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (October 28, 1932 – March 23, 2012) was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Gosnell graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University and also spent time at the Sorbonne in Paris. She worked for Newsweek for twenty-five years, as medicine and science reporter and editor, additionally contributing to Smithsonian and National Wildlife.
  
  She died of cancer in March 2012.
  
  In July 2016, a New York Times journalist live-streamed the discovery of some slide photographs by the side of a New York City trash can, and in course of time discovered them to be Gosnell's original photographs. The story was picked up by several online publications.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane. Touchstone, 1994.
  * Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  