Charles R. Pellegrino

Charles R. Pellegrino (born May 5, 1953)^[1] is an American writer and the author of several books related to science and archaeology including Her Name, Titanic (1988); Ghosts of the Titanic (2000); and To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (2015).

Charles R. Pellegrino
Pellegrino in 2023
Alma mater	Long Island University (BS, MS)
Occupation	Author
Website	charlespellegrino.com

Biography

Pellegrino was born on May 5, 1953, to John and Jane Pellegrino.^[2] He grew up in Queens, then at age 9 the family moved to Rockville Centre in Nassau County. At 15, Pellegrino was diagnosed with cancer and a rare genetic disease, Ankylosing spondylitis.^[3]

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 investigated and concluded that it had never awarded him a PhD.^[4][5][6]

Career

Pellegrino was the first person to figure out how, using MRI technology, one could see inside of 70 million year old dinosaur eggs without cracking them.^[7] Michael Crichton credits Pellegrino’s work and research as a paleontologist as part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park.^[8]

He was the recipient of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award for Science Writing from The New York Science Fiction Society in 2000.^[9] Pellegrino was a technical advisor to director James Cameron on the films Titanic and Avatar.^[10][11]

Bibliography

Nonfiction

• Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History (1983)^[12]
• Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)^[13]
• Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)^[14]
• Interstellar Travel and Communication (with James Powell, Isaac Asimov, et al., 1986)^[15]
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)^[16]
• Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship (1988)^[17]
• Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey (1991)^[18]
• Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists (1994)^[19]
• Ghosts of the Titanic (2000)^[20]
• Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (2004)^[21]
• The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (with Simcha Jacobovici, 2007)^[22]
• The Last Train from Hiroshima Henry Holt, (2010)^[23]
• Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy, 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)^[24]
• Ghosts of Hiroshima (2025)

Fiction

• Flying to Valhalla (1993)
• The Killing Star (with George Zebrowski, 1995)
• Dust (1998) ^[25]
• Dyson Sphere (with George Zebrowski, 1999)

Filmography

• Lost Civilizations: Aegean – Legacy of Atlantis – Time-Life / NBC (1995).^[26][27]

Re-released on October 1, 2002, as part of a 4-DVD set entitled Time Life's Lost Civilizations

• Ghosts of the Abyss with James Cameron (2003)
• Naked Science: Atlantis – National Geographic Channel (2004)
• Aliens of the Deep with James Cameron (2005)
• The Naked Archaeologist: Joshua – History Channel. Hosted by Simcha Jacobovici (2006)
• American Vesuvius – History Channel (2006)
• Secrets of the Bible – National Geographic Channel (2006)
• The Exodus Decoded – History Channel. With Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron (2006)
• The Lost Tomb of Jesus – Discovery Channel. With Simcha Jacobovici (2007)
• Three Ground Zeros, a Thousand Paper Cranes (2008)
• The Last Train from Hiroshima (Japan TV, 2009)
• Pellegrino and the Hiroshima Controversy in America (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2010)
• The Legacy of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2011)
• Twice Bombed, Twice Survived, Part 2 (Japan TV, Hidetaka/Nakamura, 2012)