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PERSONAL:

Born Education: Colgate University, B.A.

ADDRESSES:

Home—NY. E-mail—[email&#;protected].

CAREER:

Writer and historian. Has worked for Syracuse Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY, and Automobile Quarterly, Princeton, NJ.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Anesthesia Foundation Book/ Multimedia Education Award, , for Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It; Best Book Award, National Automotive Journalism Conference, for Packard: The Pride; Best Original Script, Audio Publishers Association, , for Zeus: A Thunderbolt from the Sky.

WRITINGS:

Boston Guide, Open Road Publishing (New York, NY),

America's Grand Hotels, Open Road Publishing (New York, NY),

(Compiler) In the Words of Great Business Leaders, Wiley (New York, NY),

Everyday Money: How to Manage Your Money the Smart and Easy Way, GuildAmerica Books (Garden City, NY),

Yahoo! Ultimate Guide to Finance and Money on the Web: From Bonds to Bills, Mortgages to Mutual Funds, Credit to Car Loans, HarperCollins (New York, NY),

Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, HarperCollins (New York, NY),

(With W. Randall Jones) Worth's Greatest Stock Picks of All Time: Lessons on Buying the Right Stock at the Right Time, Crown Business (New York, NY),

Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY),

Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the New York to Paris Auto Race, Crown Publishers (New York, NY),

Packard: The Pride, photography by Roy D. Query, design by Michael Pardo, Automobile Quarterly Publications (New Albany, IN),

(With Douglas Brinkley) Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism, Morrow (New York, NY),

The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President, Palg

DATE August 13, ACCOUNT NUMBER N/A
TIME Noon PM AUDIENCE N/A
NETWORK NPR
PROGRAM Fresh Air

Interview: Hannah Holmes talks about her new book, "The Secret
Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big
Consequences of Little Things"
NEAL CONAN, host:

This is FRESH AIR. Terry Gross is on vacation. I&#;m Neal Conan.

Dust is the inconsequential substance you shake off your heels on the way out
of town, it&#;s the stuff of the elusive bunnies beneath our couches and the
accusatory material that gathers atop the stationary bikes we bought with the
best of intentions. Let&#;s be honest, most of us don&#;t think about dust a lot.
Now a new book argues that dust is the alpha and the omega, the origin of life
and our inevitable fate. The book is called "The Secret Life of Dust: From
the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things."
Author Hannah Holmes joins us from Portland, Maine.

Welcome to FRESH AIR.

Ms. HANNAH HOLMES (Author, "The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the
Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things"): Thank you very
much, Neal.

CONAN: Well, everything in your book comes back to dust, including the
origins of our planet.

Ms. HOLMES: It&#;s pretty wonderful, isn&#;t it? I had no idea when I started
that, well, it all did begin with dust. And billions of years ago, really the
first dust coalesced to form our solar system. Without dust-forming clumps in
space, there would be no circumstance under which a solar system could form.
Space is just too violent. But dust acts as a little womb, and it protects
the things in its innards from the violent radiation in space and allows dust
and gas to slow down and cool down and compress itself into things like stars
and planets. And that&#;s where we came from.

CONAN: Is that stardust the same as the dust that&#;s hiding beneath my bed
right now?

Ms. HOLMES: There is some of that stardust beneath your

PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Home—NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Crown Publishers, Broadway, New York, NY

CAREER: Writer and historian.

AWARDS, HONORS: Anesthesia Foundation Book/Multimedia Education Award, , for Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It; Best Book Award, National Automotive Journalism Conference, for Packard: The Pride.

WRITINGS:

Boston Guide, Open Road Publishing (New York, NY),

America's Grand Hotels, Open Road Publishing (New York, NY),

Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, HarperCollins (New York, NY),

Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY),

Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the New York to Paris Auto Race, Crown Publishers (New York, NY),

Packard: The Pride, Automobile Quarterly Publications (New Albany, IN),

Contributor to periodicals such as American Heritage, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and American History. Author of column for Audacity (business history magazine). Member of editorial staff, Automobile Quarterly.

SIDELIGHTS: Writer and historian Julie M. Fenster is a frequent contributor to magazines and the author of books on business, medical and social history, and automobiles. In Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It Fenster tells the story of the three men who pioneered the use of anesthesia in surgical procedures. The trio includes Charles Jackson, better known as a geologist than a physician; Horace Wells, the first to use nitrous oxide—a gas used as a mild anesthetic—in dentistry; and William Morton, who designed and built the first successful delivery device for administering ether to patients, but who also had a history as a con man. The three were at od