Finalists for the National Book Awards were announced and AMT is proud to say that Illustration Professor Lauren Redniss has earned a nod for her book, “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout” (It Books)!!

The book is an illustrated biography of Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity — she was the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice — and her equally accomplished husband, Pierre. It’s a graphic novel and a love story. It is the first time a visual book of this kind has been named a National Book Award finalist in this category.

Read the full rave review from The New York Times here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/books/22book.html

And an interview in the Wall Street Journal here:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/10/12/radioactive-author-lauren-redniss-on-being-a-national-book-award-finalist/?mod=google_news_blog

And the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs