Margaret Lazarus Dean is the author of three books: The Time It Takes to Fall, a novel chronicling the emotional fallout of the 1986 Challenger disaster for which she was the recipient of an award from the NEA; Leaving Orbit, a work of creative nonfiction, documenting the last days of the space shuttle program that was named one of the top ten books of 2015 by Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times and for which she won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize; and most recently, she co-wrote Endurance with astronaut Scott Kelly, a memoir of his year living on the International Space Station, which was a New York Times bestseller and was translated into twenty languages.
While at MacDowell, Dean worked on her second novel, Dreaming When I Wrote This, and conducted research about preparations for the Y2K disaster.
