Nancy Hayfield is an author

Author

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, editor

Editing

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, and publisher. In 1979, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University

Princeton University

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. Nancy Hayfield's first novel, Cleaning House was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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 in 1980. In 1985, writing under her married name of Nancy Birnes, Ms. Hayfield published Cheaper and Better at Harper & Row (now HarperCollins

HarperCollins

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). In 1990, she published Zapcraft at Ten Speed Press

Ten Speed Press

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. She was the editor of the McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia in 1986 and 1989, the UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia in 2002, and is currently the editor-in-chief of UFO Magazine

UFO Magazine

UFO Magazine is an American magazine that is devoted to the subject of unidentified flying objects and the extraterrestrial hypothesis . It was founded in 1986 by Vicki Ecker and Sherie Stark, and is now published by Bill Birnes and edited by his wife Nancy Hayfield Birnes...

 and Filament Books.

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