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Born in Miami and then raised on Long Island, Dan Linehan received an A.S. in electrical engineering
from Suffolk County Community College, New York, a B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University, New York, and
a M.S. in materials engineering from Purdue University, Indiana. His research at Purdue focused on making superconductors and analyzing them with x-rays, electron beams, and atomic force.
Continuing to head west, Dan worked as a microchip engineer in California (1995-2000). He left engineering
to pursue writing and has not looked back. |
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Photo by Martin Flohr
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Dan lives in Monterey and writes freelance. His publications range from poems about fishermen in local newspapers to articles about superconductors in scientific journals. Stories have covered MGM's lion, Clint Eastwood's film Bird, a NFL head coach, a Lord of the Rings animator, a trashy romance letter made of plastic, the first Blue Angel, a five-time Space Shuttle astronaut, a Star Trek captain, and the list goes boldly on.
Dan has won awards for poetry and screenwriting. He wrote the chapbooks Spindrifting Through Ocean Archways:
Poetry of Monterey and Of Blue and Green and Brown; published Passing Through, a poetry collection by David Gitin; and
was the managing editor of Ping•Pong, the art and literary journal of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur (2007-08). His poem "Sea Otter" appeared in Oil Addiction: The World in Peril by Pierre Chomat with a foreword by Jean-Michel Cousteau.
In addition, Dan has been writing and editing educational materials, with a science emphasis, for large publishing companies since 2001. This work has also taken him to the country of Qatar, located in the Middle East, seven times since 2008.
In 2005, Dan began volunteering as a naturalist for TeamOCEAN, a program under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) to help protect, and
inform people about, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) and its scaly, furry, and feathery inhabitants.
He was the editor and publisher of the event program for the California International Airshow (2003-05).
In 2004, the event program received honorable mention for the best event program of the year by the International
Council of Air Shows (ICAS). In 2005, the event program took 3rd place out of all air shows worldwide.
Dan's first non-fiction book, SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History (foreword by Arthur C. Clarke, Zenith Press, 2008), chronicles the historic spaceflight of SpaceShipOne and its capture of the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004.
His newly released book, Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and his Flying Innovations, covers renown aerospace designer Burt Rutan and SpaceShipTwo (the commercial, passenger-carrying version of SpaceShipOne).
Among his other projects in development are a book about environmental issues he studied during his travels in Antarctica and the surrounding regions.
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