Gwyneth Cravens

Who is Gwyneth Cravens?

Gwyneth Cravens is an American novelist and journalist. To date, she has published five novels. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, where she also worked as a fiction editor, and in Harper’s Magazine, where she was an associate editor. She has contributed articles and editorials on science and other topics to Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

At a September, 2007 seminar given by the Long Now Foundation, Cravens outlined the message of her newest book, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. Released in October 2007, it argues for nuclear power as a safe energy source and an essential preventive of global warming.

Since then she has given presentations to members of the technical and academic communities around the U.S., including the Brookings Institution, the Progressive Policy Institute, the University of Hartford, and Sandia National Laboratories. She has often shared the podium with Dr. D. Richard Anderson, a chemist, oceanographer, and international expert in nuclear risk assessment. These talks emphasize the need for the environmental and technical communities to work together to reduce the anthropogenic causes of catastrophic climate change.