Sagan was author, co-author or editor of 20 books, including The Dragons of Eden (1977), which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dot (1995) and The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996), his hardest-hitting on religion. A book of the same title came out in 1980, and was on The New York Times bestseller list for 7 weeks. A great popularizer of science, Sagan produced the PBS series, " Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody award-winning, and was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. He became professor of astronomy and space science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and co-founder of the Planetary Society.
After earning bachelor and master's degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1960. In 1934, scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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