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Lucy Jago is an author and a contributor to magazines and several national newspapers. Before writing full-time, Lucy produced and directed history, arts and social documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.
Jago graduated from Kings College, Cambridge, with a double-first class honours degree and two scholarships and went on to complete an MA at the Courtauld Institute in London.
She writes about what fascinates her and has written both fiction and non-fiction, for adults and for teenagers. Her works include Montacute House, The Northern Lights and Regency House Party. She is currently working on an adult historical novel and then plans to complete the second Cess Perryn book in the three-part series that began with Montacute House.
She lives in London with her husband and three children.
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A Conversation with Lucy Jago, author of The Northern Lights
When did you first learn about the Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland,
and what drew you to write a book about his life and discoveries?
While making a film about the sun for a BBC Science series called
"The Planets," I looked for ways to illustrate the influences our star has
on the earth besides providing heat and light. The aurora are the most dramatic,
mysterious phenomena caused by the sun so I contacted scientists at the Auroral
Observatory in Troms for advice on when and how to film them. They provided me
with the information I needed, and told me about an amazing machine they had
just restored which could recreate the aurora in miniature. The man who had
invented this machine, around 1905, was Kristian Birkeland. When I heard more
about this fascinating, brilliant, but tragic figure, I was hooked and began to
research more deeply into his life. I traveled to Norway during holidays to
spend time in archives and up on mountains.
In the winter of 1899/1900, in the most northerly part of Norway, well into the
Arctic Circle, Birkeland built an observatory to watch the aurora. I was lucky
enough to arrive on the only day they had ever allowed "...
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