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Mary Batten: Biography
Mary Batten is an award-winning writer for television, film and publishing. Her many writing projects have taken her into tropical rainforests, astronomical observatories, scientific laboratories, and medical research centers.
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She is the author of Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates, published in paperback by Tarcher /Putnam 1994. She has appeared on OPRAH, TOM SNYDER, and various other television shows.
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Her other books include:
- Extinct: Creatures of the Past (Golden Books 2000)
- Hungry Plants (Golden Books 2000)
- The Winking, Blinking Sea (The Millbrook Press 2000)
- Baby Wolf (Grosset & Dunlap 1998)
- Shark Attack (Random House 1997)
- The 25 Scariest Hauntings in the World (Lowell House 1996)
- Nature's Tricksters (Sierra Club Books/Little Brown 1992)
- Discovery By Chance (Funk and Wagnalls)
- The Tropical Forest: Ants, Ants, Animals and Plants (T.Y. Crowell).
| Her magazine articles are published in a variety of publications,
including Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Modern
Maturity, National Geographic World, Shape, International
Wildlife, Science Digest, Calypso Log, and others.
As a lecturer, Mary Batten has addressed a variety of audiences, including the Smithsonian Institution, UCLA's Department of Humanities, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, UCLA's Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life (CESOL), the Southwestern Regional Audubon Society, and Christopher Newport Writers' Conference in Newport News, Virginia. She has been interviewed on numerous radio shows across the country.
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| As a film writer, she has scripted more than 50 nature documentaries
for television series, including the syndicated WILD WILD WORLD OF
ANIMALS (Time-Life Films) and others for National Geographic and Disney
Educational Films. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the
Children's Television Workshop's science series 3-2-1-CONTACT. Her
magazine article for Science Digest, "Sexual Choice: The Female's
Newly Discovered Role," won The Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page
Award for best feature story. Until recently she was editor of The Cousteau
Society's award-winning membership magazine, Calypso Log.
Currently she is editor of
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Recently, she collaborated with her husband, composer
Ed Bland, on an
opera,
ASSASSINS OF THE
SOUL.