![]() ![]() Four years later, Redniss released “ Radioactive,” a stunning twin biography of Marie and Pierre Curie that intertwined the scientists’ love story with their collaborative discovery of radioactivity. Her first book, “ Century Girl” (2006), related the life and times of Doris Eaton Travis, the last surviving member of the Ziegfeld Follies, with a zany bricolage of drawing, ephemera, and hand-lettered text. ![]() ![]() Since her poignant pen-and-ink microhistories in the New York Times’ Op-Art section, Redniss has plowed a furrow between word and text, facts and fantasy, that, for lack of a better term, might be called visual nonfiction. In the world of arts and letters, there isn’t anyone quite like Lauren Redniss. ![]()
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