Tom Shachtman (born 1942) is an American author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator.
He has published more than 30 books across a variety of topics, including histories, biographies and books for children.
He lives in Connecticut.
[citation needed] Shachtman and the British filmmaker David Dugan won the 2009 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for their two-part Nova documentary Absolute Zero.
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