The Backyard Stargazer: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Skywatching With and Without a Telescope
Pat Price is a freelance writer and editor whose interest in astronomy was sparked in the late 1960s by the Apollo Moon missions and kindled in the '80s by a stint as a writer/producer of astronomy shows at the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre in Alberta, Canada.  She lives, writes, and stargazes with her amateur astronomer husband in Edmonton, Alberta.