Sandra Blakeslee
Science writer and correspondent
Sandra Blakeslee is an American science writer who specializes in neuroscience. She spent decades as a correspondent for The New York Times.
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American Born 1943
About Sandra Blakeslee
Sandra Blakeslee was born in 1943 and became an American science correspondent and writer, with a focus on neuroscience. She graduated from Berkeley in 1965, served in the Peace Corps in Borneo, and joined The New York Times as a staff writer in 1968. She has spent roughly 35 years writing about the brain, and her time as a Times correspondent runs to more than four decades. Alongside her journalism, she has written several books. With neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran she wrote Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, published in 1998. She also contributed to On Intelligence. Her other titles include Sleights of Mind and Dirt Is Good. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.