M. G. Lord’s most recent book is Astro Turf, a family memoir about aerospace culture during the Cold War. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. Since 1995, she has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and that paper’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Discover, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, ARTNews, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, NBC Dateline, CBS This Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and PRI’s Studio 360. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was for twelve years a syndicated political cartoonist based at Newsday. An honors graduate of Yale University, she has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation science-writing grant, as well as resident fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and other venues.