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Jan Lower & Gary Kelley
Jan Lower is a graduate of the A Song For the Cosmos Blues guitarist Blind Willie
Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives a Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but in
with her family in Maryland, just outside 1977, NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts were
song
Washington, D.C. This is her first book for launched, each carrying a golden record
Creative Editions. to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos,
for the and his song “Dark Was the Night, Cold
Gary Kelley is an award-winning Was the Ground” became the defining
illustrator. His books include Next Year, The anthem. Weaving together elements of
Navajo Code Talkers, Harlem Hellfighters, Cosmos Johnson’s biography with an account of
and Virginia Was a Spy, all published by how a team of astrophysicists, writers,
Creative Editions. He lives in Cedar Falls, Jan Lower & Gary Kelley
and artists created the golden record for
Iowa.
the Voyager mission, Jan Lower and Gary
Kelley craft a tale that is itself A Song for
the Cosmos.
Blind Willie
Johnson and Voyager’s Golden Record
Creative Editions
P.O. Box 227
ISBN: 978-1-56846-362-9 U.S. $18.99
Mankato, MN 56002
www.thecreativecompany.us
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