Mariana Gosnell

Mariana Eleanor Gosnell (October 28, 1932 – March 23, 2012) was an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.

Gosnell graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University and also spent time at the Sorbonne in Paris. She worked for Newsweek for twenty-five years, as medicine and science reporter and editor, additionally contributing to Smithsonian and National Wildlife.

She died of cancer in March 2012.

In July 2016, a New York Times journalist live-streamed the discovery of some slide photographs by the side of a New York City trash can, and in course discovered them to be Gosnell's original photographs. The story was picked up by several online publications.

• Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane. Touchstone, 1994.
• Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance. University of Chicago Press, 2005.