Who wrote the biography 'Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'?

Brenda Maddox wrote the biography Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA.

Published by HarperCollins in 2002, the book examines Franklin’s life, scientific career, and role in the research that led to the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure. Maddox presents Franklin as a gifted experimental scientist whose work in X-ray crystallography produced important evidence about DNA’s form.

The biography appeared amid renewed debate about how Franklin had been portrayed in James Watson’s 1968 memoir, The Double Helix. Maddox’s book helped bring wider attention to Franklin’s achievements and to the complicated question of how credit was shared among Franklin, Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins.

Several answer choices refer to other books connected with the story. Horace Freeland Judson wrote The Eighth Day of Creation, while Anne Sayre wrote Rosalind Franklin and DNA. James Watson wrote The Double Helix. Maddox was also a biographer of figures including Nora Barnacle, W. B. Yeats, and D. H. Lawrence.