50 State Gems and Minerals

Yinan Wang started collecting minerals and fossils as a kid, and hestill does. His love of rocks brought him to Princeton University, wherehe graduated with a degree in geosciences. He later became interestedin meteorites and now keeps an eye out for them everywhere he goes.He is a coauthor of numerous paleontological research papers and is theauthor of The 50 State Gems and Minerals, The 50 State Unofficial Meteorites, and The 50 State Fossils,which received the IPPY Award 2019 Silver Medal in the Juvenile–YoungAdult Nonfiction category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.Yinan lives in Arlington, Virginia. Jane Levy has a passion for art and education and an MFA from the Ohio State University.