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5 unusual facts about Marie Winn


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He was featured in a famous birdwatching book called "Red-Tails in Love" (Random House, 1998) by Marie Winn.

Marie Winn

An advocate for protecting wildlife, Winn gave the name Pale Male to the Red-tailed Hawk that nested on a Fifth Avenue building, receiving much press coverage.

Winn is the author of the influential The Plug-In Drug (1977), an often scathing critique of television's addictive influence on the young, Winn wrote, "The television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state."

Born in 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Winn is one of two daughters of a psychiatrist; her sister is the writer Janet Malcolm.

The Plug-In Drug

The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, And The Family is a book of social criticism written by Marie Winn and published in 1977 by Viking Penguin with the ISBN 0140076980.



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Marie Winn eventually became a journalist whose books include The Plug-In Drug, a scathing critique on television's influence over children.