Maria Popova
Writer behind The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings); author of Figuring.
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- Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer based in Brooklyn.
- In 2006 she started Brain Pickings, a blog on books, art, science and philosophy, and renamed it The Marginalian on its 15th anniversary in 2021.
- Her book Figuring (2019) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology.
- She created The Universe in Verse, an annual event celebrating science through poetry, held from 2017.
Key facts
- Born
- 1983 or 1984, Sofia, Bulgaria1
- Blog
- Brain Pickings, started 2006; renamed The Marginalian in October 20211
- Books
- Figuring (2019); The Snail with the Right Heart (2021); A Velocity of Being, co-editor (2018); The Universe in Verse (2024)1
- Award
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize, science and technology, for Figuring (2019)1
- Education
- Communications degree, University of Pennsylvania1
- Lives in
- Brooklyn, New York (from 2010)1
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