Together with neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran, she authored the 1998 popular science book Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind.
[1][2][3][4] Sandra Blakeslee was raised in Port Washington, New York.
[1] She then joined the Peace Corps, serving in Sarawak, Borneo, where she taught elementary school.
[2] She co-authored a series of books on marriage and divorce with psychologist Judith Wallerstein.
[7] Starting in 1995, Blakeslee began hosting a writing workshop with fellow Times writer George Johnson at the Santa Fe Institute, which awarded her a journalism fellowship in 2013.