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John Michael Allaby is an Aventis Junior prize-winning author. He was born on 18 September 1933 in Belper, Derbyshire in England. He was a police cadet from 1949 to 1951. After that he served in the RAF from 1951 to 1954, becoming a pilot. After leaving the RAF, he worked as an actor from 1954 to 1964. He married Marthe McGregor on 3 January 1957. From 1964 to 1972, he a worked as an editor for the Soil Association in Suffolk, England, editing ''Span'' magazine from 1967 to 1972. He was a member of the board of directors for Ecosystems Ltd. in Wadebridge, Cornwall, England and was an associate editor of ''Ecologist'' from 1970 to 1972. He became a managing editor in 1972. In 1973, he became a freelance writer. He has written widely about science, particularly about ecology and weather. He edits and writes dictionaries and encyclopaedias for Macmillan Publishers and Oxford University Press. He co-authored James Lovelock's first two books: ''The Greening of Mars'' (1984, Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-32967-3) and ''Great Extinction'' (1983, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-18011-X).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Booklist )〕 His book, ''The Food Chain'' (André Deutsch, ISBN 0-233-97681-7) was runner-up for the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award in 1984. The New York Public Library chose ''Dangerous Weather: Hurricanes'' as one of its books for the teenage in 1998. He won the Aventis Junior Prize for Science Books in 2001 for ''How the Weather Works''. He is a member of the Society for the History of Natural History, the Planetary Society, the Society of Authors, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Association of British Science Writers. ==References== *(Michael Allaby (1933–) Biography- Personal, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Work in Progress, Sidelights. at Jrank. Online 25 July 2008. ) *''Contemporary Authors'' Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in (Biography Resource Center ). Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Document Number: H1000001310. Online 29 July 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Allaby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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