Mark Anderson

Margo Anderson (born August 13, 1967), formerly Mark Anderson, is an American journalist and book author.

Education Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in astrophysics.

Career Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international publications and media outlets.

Anderson's second book, The Day the World Discovered the Sun (Da Capo Press, 2012), covers the historical adventures involved in, and the build-up surrounding, the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus. The book details, in addition to the myriad far-flung voyages to record the transits, the critical leaps in progress made in oceanic navigation, and in astronomical calculations such as the precise distance from the Earth to the Sun, during this fruitful period. The book won the USA Best Book Award in the History: General category in 2013.

Anderson is news manager at IEEE Spectrum.

Personal life Anderson has a wife and children.

In September 2022 Anderson announced having transitioned as a transgender woman, with the name Margo Anderson.