Often I travel to do in-person research." In the course of just a couple of weeks in his busy research schedule, for example, he interviewed the ninety-year-old discoverer of the planet Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, for
The Planet Hunters, and then went to Puerto Rico, where he saw the biggest radio telescope in the world, for a book on the search for extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence. There he talked to a scientist who was taking part in a program listening for signals that ETs may be sending us. "Can you imagine getting to visit places like that and actually making a living at it"" Fradin once remarked. "Every day I'm thrilled when I think that I became what I dreamed of becoming: a children's author."
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1945, Fradin started writing in junior high school and learned early on to trust his own instincts. "When I was a freshman in high school," the author once noted, "I wrote a science-fiction story that my English teacher said was the best story by a freshman he had ever seen.
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