Lauren Redniss

She is the author of three works of visual non-fiction. Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (2015), won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[2][3] Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (2010), was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the first work of visual non-fiction to be so recognized.[4]

Redniss is also the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies (2006).[5] Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize.[1] She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City.[6]

The Sunday Telegraph has called Redniss' work "some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world."[7] In its citation of Radioactive, the National Book Foundation wrote: “Redniss’ achievement is a celebration of the essential power of books to inform, charm, and transport. In marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction.”[1]

Redniss was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2016. She is a 2017 New America Foundation fellow.[8]

It was announced in February 2017 that Marjane Satrapi would direct a film adaptation of Redniss's graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, with StudioCanal and Working Title Films serving as producers. An Autumn 2017 production start was initially foreseen.[9] In May 2017, during the Cannes Film Festival, Rosamund Pike was cast as Curie.[10]

In February 2018, the film was acquired by Amazon Studios, with filming beginning in Budapest and Esztergom[11] the same week.[12] The cast was rounded out by Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard and Simon Russell Beale a few days later.[13]