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Kitty Gail Ferguson (née Vetter) (born December 16, 1941) is a science writer and former professional musician.

She is the author of Black Holes in Spacetime (1991), The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion & the Search for God (1995), Prisons of Light: Black Holes (1996), Measuring the Universe: the Historical Quest to Quantify Space (1999), Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything (1991 and 2001), The Nobleman and His Housedog: Tycho and Kepler - The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (2002) and The Music of Pythagoras (2008).

Ferguson, the daughter of Herman and Prestyne Vetter, was born and spent her childhood in San Antonio, Texas, where she developed an interest in astronomy and physics.[1] She studied music at the Juilliard School and had a twenty-year career as a professional musician. While spending a year in England while her husband, Dr. Yale H. Ferguson, was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, Ferguson rekindled her early passion for science. After her return to the United States she began writing her highly successful books on science and currently lives in Bluffton, SC, and Cambridge, England.

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