John I. Boslough ’67

John died May 4, 2010, of cancer at home in Snowmass Village, Colo.

John entered Princeton with the Class of 1964, dropped out for a few years and then joined the Class of 1967.  He was a member of Colonial, ran track, and wrote for The Daily Princetonian.

After graduation, John attended Columbia Law School, but ultimately decided to move back to Colorado and become a journalist. He started as the sports editor of the Mountain Mail in Salida, Colo., and later became editor. John returned to Denver with the Associated Press and then joined the Denver Post as a reporter, where he won many awards for his stories, which were often science-related. John moved to Washington, D.C., to head the Denver Post’s bureau in the late ‘70s and later left to become science editor at U.S. News & World Report.

John wrote five books about science issues and contributed articles to numerous publications, including The Washington Post and National Geographic. John wrote Stephen Hawking’s Universe, a 1985 biography of the famed scientist that was an international bestseller and was translated into 10 languages. He also co-authored The Very First Light — The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe with astrophysicist and Nobel Prize-winner John C. Mather.

John is survived by his wife, Susan; and daughters Jill and Sophie.