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Muriel Beadle

Muriel Beadle (; 1915 - February 13, 1994) was an American journalist and author.

Beadle was born in California in 1915. She graduated from Morgan Park High School, after which she attended Pomona College, ultimately received a bachelor’s degree Phi Beta Kappa. She later received an honorary doctorate from Mundelein College.

Beadle started her career with at Carson Pirie Scott & Co. as an advertising copywriter in the 1930s. She then wrote for the ''Los Angeles Mirror-News'' from 1948 to 1958. She published her first book, ''These Ruins are Inhabited'', with Doubleday in 1961. In 1966, she published ''The Language of Life'', which she cowrote with her husband, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist George Beadle. The following year, the book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and religion. Provided by Wikipedia