Linda Salzman-Sagan
Linda Salzman-Sagan is an artist and award-winning screenwriter with 14 years of experience in feature films and television. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America. She collaborated with Carl Sagan on several of his books and co-authored Murmurs of Earth (1978). She is the artist behind the plaque on the Pioneer 10 spaceship. Ms. Salzman Sagan did extensive research for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. Passionate about the theater, she directed a number of plays for the Central Casting Theater in Ithaca, NY. Her son, Nick Sagan, is a writer and currently works in New York. Linda taught screenwriting at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno.

"My mother arrived in this country in 1929 from the town of Kovel. If she hadn't left when she did, she would have been killed along with all of our other relatives. I want to help prevent genocides, and the Center for HGPS is taking the right steps to do this."

Profession
Artist and Screenwriter

Contact
lsalzman@scs.unr.edu