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'''Charles R. Pellegrino''' (born 1953) is an American writer, the author of several books related to science and archaeology, including ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah'', ''Ghosts of the Titanic'', ''Unearthing Atlantis'', and ''Ghosts of Vesuvius.'' Errors in his book ''The Last Train from Hiroshima'' (2010) prompted its publisher to withdraw it within a few months of publication. '''Charles R. Pellegrino''' (born 1953) is an American writer, the author of several books related to science and archaeology, including ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah'', ''Ghosts of the Titanic'', ''Unearthing Atlantis'', and ''Ghosts of Vesuvius''. Pellegrino falsely claimed to have earned a PhD, and errors in his book ''The Last Train from Hiroshima'' (2010) prompted its publisher to withdraw it within a few months of publication.


==Early life== ==Early life==
During the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at ].<ref name="NYTmd">{{cite news|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/university-rejects-pellegrino-claim-in-degree-dispute/ |title=University Rejects Pellegrino Claim in Degree Dispute |newspaper=The New York Times | location=New York | date=2010-03-05 |last=Rich|first=Motoko }}</ref> During the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at ].<ref name="NYTmd">{{cite news|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/university-rejects-pellegrino-claim-in-degree-dispute/ |title=University Rejects Pellegrino Claim in Degree Dispute |newspaper=The New York Times | location=New York | date=March 5, 2010 |last=Rich|first=Motoko }}</ref>


Pellegrino claimed to have received a PhD in 1982 from ] in New Zealand;<ref name="NYTmd" /> the university denied that claim.<ref name="nyt2">{{cite news |title=Publisher to Halt Printing of Disputed Hiroshima Book |newspaper=The New York Times| location=New York | date=March 1, 2010 |last=Rich|first=Motoko |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/books/02train.html?ref=books |accessdate=March 5, 2010}}</ref><ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100301/ap_on_en_ot/us_atom_bomb_book_pulled |title=Publisher halts book about bombing of Hiroshima |last=Italie |first=Hillel |date=March 2, 2010 |work=Yahoo News |publisher=Associated Press |accessdate=March 10, 2010 |location=New York |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307232025/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100301/ap_on_en_ot/us_atom_bomb_book_pulled |archivedate=March 7, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="nz">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10629487 |title=University denies authors PhD claim |newspaper=New Zealand Herald | date=March 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name="WS">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/career-too-good-be-true |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305082428/http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/career-too-good-be-true |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 5, 2010 |title=A Career Too Good to Be True |last=Schoenfeld|first=Gabriel |date=March 1, 2010 |magazine=Weekly Standard |accessdate=March 8, 2010 |location=Washington }}</ref> Pellegrino responded that the university had "stripped him of his Ph.D. because of a disagreement over evolutionary theory".<ref name="nyt2" /> '']'' reported that Pellegrino claimed his credentials had been restored by 1997.<ref name="nz" /> The university investigated the matter, and in 2010, '']'' reported that the university had never awarded him a PhD.<ref name="NYTmd"/>
==Scientific Contributions==
===Jurassic Park Recipe===
In 1985, Pellegrino published the article ''Dinosaur Capsule'' in the magazine ''Omni'' in which he speculated that dinosaur DNA could be harvested from biting insects that feasted on Dinosaur blood, only to be trapped in the resin of amber, fossilizing DNA samples. He proposed the concept of reconstructing entire dinosaur genomes from such fragmentary gene sequences by PCR amplifying them, then supplementing various gaps with DNA from still-living modern relatives of dinosaurs. This concept inspired Dr. Michael Crichton, who cites Pellegrino in his famous Jurassic Park book series as the originator of the concept on which the novels, and later Stephen Spielberg movies, build upon. <ref>{{cite news|title=40-Million-Year-Old Extinct Bee Yields Oldest Genetic Material|author=Malcolm W. Browne|date=15 September 1992|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/25/us/40-million-year-old-extinct-bee-yields-oldest-genetic-material.html}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|title=Jurassic Park’s Unlikely Symbiosis With Real-World Science|author= Lorraine Boissoneault|date=15 June 2018|newspaper=Smithsonian Magazine|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jurassic-park-reveals-delicate-interplay-between-science-and-science-fiction-180969331/}}</ref>


===Titanic=== ==Works==
⚫ ===''The Last Train from Hiroshima''===
Pellegrino has dived to the wreck of the RMS Titanic on two expeditions: The first being George Tulloch's 1996 RMS Titanic, Inc. expedition, and again for James Cameron's 2001 ''Ghosts of the Abyss'' expedition, for which the documentary movie and book of the same name were subsequently released in 2003. The latter expedition is notable for Pellegrino having surfaced from the dive to the Titanic's stern section into news of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

'''''Downblast Theory'''''

In 1985, while sailing with Navy explorer and discoverer of the Titanic Dr. Robert Ballard on the Melville to the East Pacific Rise, Pellegrino reviewed preliminary footage of the RMS Titanic's wreck. He noted that decks at the aft end of the Titanic's bow section were "pancaked down like an accordion" upon one another, while the stern likewise suffered extensive damage. Pellegrino had simulated the sinking of the Titanic with a plastic model and red dust in a pool, noting a curious "slipsteam" of water following the wreck to the bottom, impacting the sunken model after it settled and proceeding to spread out. He called this force of water dragged down with the wreck "Downblast" and proposed it as an explanation for mysterious damage to the Titanic unaccounted for strictly by the sinking. Dr. Ballard credits Pellegrino with the Downblast theory in his book ''The Discovery of the Titanic'' <ref>{{cite book|title=The Discovery of the Titanic|author=Dr. Robert Ballard|date=1987|}}</ref>. Pellegrino also mentions the theory in his book ''Ghosts of the Titanic'' published in 2000.

In 2010, RMS Titanic, Inc. conducted an extensive sonar map survey of the Titanic wreck and debris field, which noted Downblast patterns in the seabed around the Titanic, as well as patterns of damage to the ship itself, which confirmed the Downblast Theory. Naval engineer Parks Stephenson wrote the following, of the Downblast Theory, on his Titanic analysis Facebook page:
{{quote|...you can see the downblast effect dramatically in the patterns etched into the ocean floor. The circular pattern left by the disturbed water on the bottom around the stern section is a forensic indicator about the movement of the stern before impact. On the wreck itself, the most obvious indicator to me was the trunk of a mushroom vent blown FORWARD and outboard against a forecastle stanchion with such force that it wrapped around that stanchion.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.facebook.com/sparks401/posts/902306126904567 |title=Parks Stephenson - Titanic |last=Stephenson|first=Parks |date=2020-06-27</ref>}}

'''''Rusticles'''''

Pellegrino has also published several peer-reviewed research articles alongside Dr. Roy Cullimore, regarding the Microbiology of Rusticles. These include:

* '''RMS Titanic and the emergence of new concepts on consortial nature of microbial events''' ( Cullimore DR, Pellegrino C, Johnston L. RMS Titanic and the emergence of new concepts on consortial nature of microbial events. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol. 2002;173:117-41. PMID: 11776749.)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11776749/ |title=RMS Titanic and the emergence of new concepts on consortial nature of microbial events |last=Pellegrino|first=Charles |date=2020-06-27}}</ref>
* '''The rebirth of the RMS Titanic, a study of the bioarcheology of a physically disrupted sunken vessel'''. Voyage 25, June 25:39–46

===The Europa Theory and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome===

Alongside his co-author Dr. Jesse Stoff, Pellegrino has extensively studied Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in their book by the same name. <ref>{{cite book|title=Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic|author=Charles R. Pellegrino and Jesse Stoff|date=1987|}}</ref>

Together, Pellegrino and Stoff also proposed gravitational and tidal influence calculations that predicted oceans beneath the frozen surfaces of Jovian ice moons. It was this prediction that intrigued explorer Robert Ballard to invite Pellegrino to sail with his team to the East Pacific Rise expedition on the Melville, shortly after Ballard had discovered the Titanic in 1985. The theories were originally suggested in their joint book ''Darwin's Universe''. <ref>{{cite web| url=https://wabcradio.com/episode/the-oceans-of-the-moons-charles-pellegrino-darwins-universe-origins-and-crises-in-the-history-of-life-second-edition-hardcover-1986-by-charles-r-and-jesse-a-stoff-pellegrino/|title=The oceans of the Moons |last=Pellegrino|first=Charles |date=2019-11-20}}</ref>

==Controversies==
⚫ ===Last Train from Hiroshima===
{{main|The Last Train From Hiroshima}} {{main|The Last Train From Hiroshima}}
⚫ In January 2010, ] published Pellegrino's ''Last Train from Hiroshima'', a look at the ] from the vantage of survivors.


⚫ In January 2010, ] published Pellegrino's '']'', a look at the ] from the vantage of survivors.
''The New York Times'' initially praised the book as "sober and authoritative" and as a "firm and compelling synthesis of earlier memoirs and archival material".<ref>{{cite news|title=After Atom Bombs' Shock, the Real Horrors Began Unfolding|author=Dwight Garner|date=20 January 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html}}</ref> Nevertheless, a month later the ''New York Times'' questioned claims made in Pellegrino's book:


{{quote| claims to reveal a secret accident with the atom bomb that killed one American and irradiated others and greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power… There is just one problem. That section of the book and other technical details of the mission are based on the recollections of Joseph Fuoco, who is described as a last-minute substitute on one of the two observation planes that escorted the ''Enola Gay''… But Mr. Fuoco… never flew on the bombing run, and he never substituted for James R. Corliss, the plane’s regular flight engineer, Mr. Corliss’s family says. They, along with angry ranks of scientists, historians and veterans, are denouncing the book and calling Mr. Fuoco an impostor.<ref name="broadnyt">{{cite news|author=William J. Broad|title=Doubts Raised on Book's Tale of Atom Bomb|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 February 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/books/21hiroshima.html?ref=books|accessdate=21 February 2010}}</ref>}} ''The New York Times'' initially praised the book as "sober and authoritative" and as a "firm and compelling synthesis of earlier memoirs and archival material".<ref>{{cite news|title=After Atom Bombs' Shock, the Real Horrors Began Unfolding|author=Dwight Garner|date=January 20, 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html}}</ref> Nevertheless, a month later, the newspaper disputed claims made in Pellegrino's book regarding an accident with the atom bomb that resulted in the death of an American and the weakening of the weapon. Pellegrino conceded that he was misled and said that other editions of the book would be rewritten.<ref name="broadnyt">{{cite news|author=William J. Broad|title=Doubts Raised on Book's Tale of Atom Bomb|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 20, 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/books/21hiroshima.html?ref=books|accessdate=February 21, 2010}}</ref>


In early March 2010, the publisher announced that it would no longer print or ship the book.<ref name="BBCNews">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8549036.stm |title=Avatar director James Cameron defends Hiroshima author|date=March 4, 2010 |work=] |accessdate=October 28, 2010}}</ref> A revised edition, ''To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima'', was released in August 2015 by ].<ref>{{cite web |title=To Hell and Back {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charles-pellegrino/to-hell-and-back-last-train/ |website=] |access-date=April 26, 2023}}</ref>
Veterans of the ], the Air Force unit which dropped the atomic bombs, issued a detailed list of substantive problems with many of the book's claims about the bomb and the Air Force personnel involved.<ref>{{cite web |first=Robert W. |last=Krauss |url=http://www.enolagay509th.com/Veterans509th.pdf |title=Atomic Veterans Incensed over False Claims in New Book |publisher=Veterans of the 509th Composite Group (EnolaGay509th.com) |date=February 2010 |accessdate=27 July 2014}}</ref>

''The New York Times'' added, "Facing a national outcry and the Corliss family’s evidence, the author, Charles Pellegrino, now concedes that he was probably duped. . . . e said he would rewrite sections of the book for paperback and foreign editions."<ref name="broadnyt" /> Despite Pellegrino's claim in ''The New York Times'' that he had been "duped" by Fuoco, further investigation revealed that Pellegrino had repeatedly mentioned one of the book's most disputed claims (a supposedly fatal accident at ] on 4 August 1945) ''before'' Mr. Fuoco had allegedly confided it for him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Veracity-Last-Train-from-Hiroshima/forum/FxRGMI1NTKPBJN/TxLCIVCIUA53GA/1?_encoding=UTF8&cdMsgNo=6&asin=0805087966&store=books&cdSort=oldest&cdMsgID=Mx21JECJHBJQA46#Mx21JECJHBJQA46 |title=Amazon.com: Customer Discussions |date=23 February 2010}}{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9kJOPPHjgU |title=Coast to Coast AM Radio: Interview with Charles Pellegrino |work=Coast to Coast AM |date=Feb 2010 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Doubts also arose about the existence of two westerners allegedly present in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing.<ref name="CB1">{{cite web| url=http://criminalbrief.com/?p=11231 |title=Fact, Fiction, Fakery |last=Lundin|first=Leigh |date=2010-03-07| work=Literary Scandals |publisher=Criminal Brief}}</ref>

On 1 March 2010, Henry Holt announced it had halted publication of ''Last Train from Hiroshima''.<ref name="CB1" />

Pellegrino subsequently revised the text to remove some of the disputed content. The book was retitled "To Hell and Back" and released by a different publisher in 2015.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pellegrino |first=Charles R. |title=To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=August 6, 2015 |isbn=978-1442250581}}</ref>

==Works==
'']: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History'' (2007) (co-authored with ]) was a companion book to the ] documentary on the same subject created in part by film director ].


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==
===Non-fiction=== ===Nonfiction===
* ''Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History'' (1983)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History.'' Paperback ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1985. {{ISBN|0-8306-1863-5}}</ref> * ''Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History'' (1983)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History''. Paperback ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1985. {{ISBN|0-8306-1863-5}}</ref>
* ''Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life'' (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Jesse A. ''Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life.'' 2d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1986. {{ISBN|0-8306-2773-1}}</ref> * ''Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life'' (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Jesse A. ''Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life''. 2d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1986. {{ISBN|0-8306-2773-1}}</ref>
* ''Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon'' (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Joshua. ''Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon.'' New York: Quill, 1999. {{ISBN|0-380-80261-9}}</ref> * ''Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon'' (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Joshua. ''Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon''. New York: Quill, 1999. {{ISBN|0-380-80261-9}}</ref>
* ''Interstellar Travel and Communication'' (with James Powell and Isaac Asimov, et al., 1986)<ref>Asimov, Pellegrino, Powell and others edited this work, which is a collection of papers from the ] May 1986 symposium, ''Interstellar Travel and Communication.'' See: "Bibliography." In Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. ''Dyson Sphere.'' New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. {{ISBN|0-671-54173-0}}</ref> * ''Interstellar Travel and Communication'' (with James Powell, ], et al., 1986)<ref>Asimov, Pellegrino, Powell and others edited this work, which is a collection of papers from the ] May 1986 symposium, ''Interstellar Travel and Communication.'' See: "Bibliography." In Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. ''Dyson Sphere''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. {{ISBN|0-671-54173-0}}</ref>
* ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic'' (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)<ref>Stoff, Jesse A. and Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic.'' 2d rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. {{ISBN|0-06-092260-5}}</ref> * ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic'' (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)<ref>Stoff, Jesse A. and Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic''. 2d rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. {{ISBN|0-06-092260-5}}</ref>
* ''Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship'' (1988)<ref>Pellgrino, Charles R. ''Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship.'' Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. {{ISBN|0-7090-4242-6}}</ref> * ''Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship'' (1988)<ref>Pellgrino, Charles R. ''Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. {{ISBN|0-7090-4242-6}}</ref>
* ''Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey'' (1991)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey.'' New York: Vintage, 1993. {{ISBN|0-679-73407-4}}</ref> * ''Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey'' (1991)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey''. New York: Vintage, 1993. {{ISBN|0-679-73407-4}}</ref>
* ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists'' (1994)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists.'' 2d paperback ed. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. {{ISBN|0-380-72633-5}}</ref> * ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists'' (1994)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists''. 2d paperback ed. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. {{ISBN|0-380-72633-5}}</ref>
* ''Ghosts of the Titanic'' (2000)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Ghosts of the Titanic.'' New York: Avon, 2001. {{ISBN|0-380-72472-3}}</ref> * ''Ghosts of the Titanic'' (2000)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Ghosts of the Titanic''. New York: Avon, 2001. {{ISBN|0-380-72472-3}}</ref>
* ''Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections'' (2004)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections.'' Paperback ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. {{ISBN|0-06-075100-2}}</ref> * ''Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections'' (2004)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections''. Paperback ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. {{ISBN|0-06-075100-2}}</ref>
* '']'' (with ], 2007)<ref>Jacobovici, Simcha and Pellegrino, Charles R. ''The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History.'' Paperback ed. New York: HarperOne, 2008. {{ISBN|0-06-120534-6}}</ref> * '']'' (with ], 2007)<ref>Jacobovici, Simcha and Pellegrino, Charles R. ''The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History''. Paperback ed. New York: HarperOne, 2008. {{ISBN|0-06-120534-6}}</ref>
* '']'' (], 2010)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back.'' New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. {{ISBN|0-8050-8796-6}}</ref> * '']'' ], (2010)<ref>Pellegrino, Charles R. ''Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back''. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. {{ISBN|0-8050-8796-6}}</ref>
* "Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy," (Foreword by Tom Dettweiler), John Wiley & Sons, N.J. (2012). * "Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy," (Foreword by Tom Dettweiler), John Wiley & Sons, N.J. (2012).
* "The Californian Incident," Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013). * "The Californian Incident", Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).
* "StarTram: The New Race for Space." (with James Powell, George Maise) Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013). * "StarTram: The New Race for Space". (with James Powell, George Maise) Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).
* ''To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima'' (2015)<ref>{{cite news|title=To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charles-pellegrino/to-hell-and-back-last-train/ |website=kirkusreviews.com |date=August 6, 2015 |access-date=March 29, 2024}}</ref>


===Fiction=== ===Fiction===
* ''The Fallen Sky'' (1982) * ''The Fallen Sky'' (1982)
* ''Flying to Valhalla'' (1993) * ''Flying to Valhalla'' (1993)
* '']'' (with George Zebrowski, 1995) * '']'' (with ], 1995)
* ''Dust'' (1998) * ''Dust'' (1998)
* '']'' (with ], 1999) * '']'' (with George Zebrowski, 1999)


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
* ''Lost Civilizations: Aegean - Legacy of Atlantis'' - ] / ] (1995).<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/189493/Lost-Civilizations-Aegean-Legacy-of-Atlantis/overview | work=The New York Times | title=Movies: About Lost Civilizations: Aegean - Legacy of Atlantis}}</ref><ref></ref> * ''Lost Civilizations: Aegean – Legacy of Atlantis'' – ] / ] (1995).<ref>{{cite news| url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/189493/Lost-Civilizations-Aegean-Legacy-of-Atlantis/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520035748/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/189493/Lost-Civilizations-Aegean-Legacy-of-Atlantis/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 20, 2011 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=] | author=Elizabeth Smith | date=2011 | title=Movies: About Lost Civilizations: Aegean – Legacy of Atlantis}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4289296.html|title='Lost Civilizations' Uses Modern Ways to Tell Ancient Tales – Chicago Sun-Times &#124; Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
:Re-released on October 1, 2002 as part of a 4-DVD set entitled ''Time Life's Lost Civilizations.'' :Re-released on October 1, 2002, as part of a 4-DVD set entitled ''Time Life's Lost Civilizations''
* '']''. With ] (2003). * '']'' with ] (2003)
* '']: ]'' - ] (2004). * '']: Atlantis'' – ] (2004)
* '']''. With ] (2005). * '']'' with James Cameron (2005)
* '']: ]'' - ]. Hosted by ] (2006). * '']: Joshua'' – ]. Hosted by Simcha Jacobovici (2006)
* ''American Vesuvius'' - ] (2006). * ''American Vesuvius'' – History Channel (2006)
* ''Secrets of the Bible'' - ] (2006). * ''Secrets of the Bible'' – ] (2006)
* '']'' - ]. With ] and ] (2006). * '']'' – History Channel. With Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron (2006)
* '']'' - ]. With ] (2007). * '']'' – ]. With Simcha Jacobovici (2007)
* '' Three Ground Zeros, A Thousand Paper Cranes (2008) * ''Three Ground Zeros, a Thousand Paper Cranes'' (2008)
* '' A Jewish Home in Pompeii (History Channel, 2009) * ''A Jewish Home in Pompeii'' (History Channel, 2009)
* '' The Last Train From Hiroshima (Japan TV, 2009) * ''The Last Train from Hiroshima'' (Japan TV, 2009)
* Pellegrino and the Hiroshima Controversy in America (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2010) * ''Pellegrino and the Hiroshima Controversy in America'' (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2010)
* The Legacy of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2011) * ''The Legacy of Tsutomu Yamaguchi'' (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2011)
* Twice Bombed, Twice Survived, Part 2 (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2012) * ''Twice Bombed, Twice Survived, Part 2'' (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2012)
* '']'' - ]. With ] (2017).


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
* * {{official website|charlespellegrino.com}}
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* https://rowman.com/WebDocs/Foreword_by_Steven_Leeper.pdf


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American author (born 1953)

Charles R. Pellegrino
Charles Pellegrino wearing a black print t-shirt, speaking into a microphonePellegrino in 2023
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Alma materLong Island University (BS, MS)
OccupationAuthor
Websitecharlespellegrino.com

Charles R. Pellegrino (born 1953) is an American writer, the author of several books related to science and archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis, and Ghosts of Vesuvius. Pellegrino falsely claimed to have earned a PhD, and errors in his book The Last Train from Hiroshima (2010) prompted its publisher to withdraw it within a few months of publication.

Early life

During the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Island University.

Pellegrino claimed to have received a PhD in 1982 from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; the university denied that claim. Pellegrino responded that the university had "stripped him of his Ph.D. because of a disagreement over evolutionary theory". The New Zealand Herald reported that Pellegrino claimed his credentials had been restored by 1997. The university investigated the matter, and in 2010, The New York Times reported that the university had never awarded him a PhD.

Works

The Last Train from Hiroshima

Main article: The Last Train From Hiroshima

In January 2010, Henry Holt published Pellegrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima, a look at the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima from the vantage of survivors.

The New York Times initially praised the book as "sober and authoritative" and as a "firm and compelling synthesis of earlier memoirs and archival material". Nevertheless, a month later, the newspaper disputed claims made in Pellegrino's book regarding an accident with the atom bomb that resulted in the death of an American and the weakening of the weapon. Pellegrino conceded that he was misled and said that other editions of the book would be rewritten.

In early March 2010, the publisher announced that it would no longer print or ship the book. A revised edition, To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima, was released in August 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield.

Bibliography

Nonfiction

  • Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History (1983)
  • Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)
  • Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)
  • Interstellar Travel and Communication (with James Powell, Isaac Asimov, et al., 1986)
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)
  • Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship (1988)
  • Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey (1991)
  • Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists (1994)
  • Ghosts of the Titanic (2000)
  • Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (2004)
  • The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (with Simcha Jacobovici, 2007)
  • The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back Henry Holt, (2010)
  • "Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy," (Foreword by Tom Dettweiler), John Wiley & Sons, N.J. (2012).
  • "The Californian Incident", Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).
  • "StarTram: The New Race for Space". (with James Powell, George Maise) Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).
  • To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (2015)

Fiction

Filmography

  • Lost Civilizations: Aegean – Legacy of Atlantis – Time-Life / NBC (1995).
Re-released on October 1, 2002, as part of a 4-DVD set entitled Time Life's Lost Civilizations

References

  1. ^ Rich, Motoko (March 5, 2010). "University Rejects Pellegrino Claim in Degree Dispute". The New York Times. New York.
  2. ^ Rich, Motoko (March 1, 2010). "Publisher to Halt Printing of Disputed Hiroshima Book". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
  3. Italie, Hillel (March 2, 2010). "Publisher halts book about bombing of Hiroshima". Yahoo News. New York: Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  4. ^ "University denies authors PhD claim". New Zealand Herald. March 2, 2010.
  5. Schoenfeld, Gabriel (March 1, 2010). "A Career Too Good to Be True". Weekly Standard. Washington. Archived from the original on March 5, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  6. Dwight Garner (January 20, 2010). "After Atom Bombs' Shock, the Real Horrors Began Unfolding". The New York Times.
  7. William J. Broad (February 20, 2010). "Doubts Raised on Book's Tale of Atom Bomb". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  8. "Avatar director James Cameron defends Hiroshima author". BBC News. March 4, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  9. "To Hell and Back | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  10. Pellegrino, Charles R. Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History. Paperback ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1985. ISBN 0-8306-1863-5
  11. Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Jesse A. Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life. 2d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1986. ISBN 0-8306-2773-1
  12. Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Joshua. Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon. New York: Quill, 1999. ISBN 0-380-80261-9
  13. Asimov, Pellegrino, Powell and others edited this work, which is a collection of papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science May 1986 symposium, Interstellar Travel and Communication. See: "Bibliography." In Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. Dyson Sphere. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-671-54173-0
  14. Stoff, Jesse A. and Pellegrino, Charles R. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic. 2d rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. ISBN 0-06-092260-5
  15. Pellgrino, Charles R. Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. ISBN 0-7090-4242-6
  16. Pellegrino, Charles R. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey. New York: Vintage, 1993. ISBN 0-679-73407-4
  17. Pellegrino, Charles R. Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists. 2d paperback ed. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. ISBN 0-380-72633-5
  18. Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of the Titanic. New York: Avon, 2001. ISBN 0-380-72472-3
  19. Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections. Paperback ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 0-06-075100-2
  20. Jacobovici, Simcha and Pellegrino, Charles R. The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History. Paperback ed. New York: HarperOne, 2008. ISBN 0-06-120534-6
  21. Pellegrino, Charles R. Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. ISBN 0-8050-8796-6
  22. "To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima". kirkusreviews.com. August 6, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
  23. Elizabeth Smith (2011). "Movies: About Lost Civilizations: Aegean – Legacy of Atlantis". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011.
  24. "'Lost Civilizations' Uses Modern Ways to Tell Ancient Tales – Chicago Sun-Times | Encyclopedia.com".

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