The Collected Works

Maya started her journalistic career working for several different publications in New York City, including the Women's National News Service and Life Magazine, where she spent 10 years as a reporter. In 1960, she launched her free-lance career, initially writing for such publications as Harpers and McCall's.

In 1957, while still a reporter at Life Magazine, Maya published her first book -- "Retarded Children Can Be Helped" -- with photographs by Cornell Capa.

Her second book, "Health and Disease," coauthored with Rene Dubos, was published in 1965, as part of the Life Science Library.

"Revolution in Learning," a groundbreaking book about the years from birth to six, came out in 1966. It was translated into 12 languages.

In 1973, Maya published "The Brain Changers; Scientists and the New Mind Control."

That one, too, was widely translated.

In November 1973, a cover story in the New York Times Magazine about "Right Brain, Left Brain."

In November 1974, another New York Times Magazine cover, this one about the family's experiment with vegetarianism.

"Meatless, Guiltless," as it was called, became somewhat infamous within the family.

Maya was also a contributing editor of Psychology Today.

In the early 1980s, Maya briefly commuted to New York City to cover behavior for the New York Times.

In 1983, an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Maya wrote about Huntington's Disease in Science84 in 1984.

One of many book reviews Maya wrote in the Washington Post in the mid-80s.

In 1987, Maya went to work for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, editing and writing a dazzling series of pamphlets about biomedical sciences written for a general audience. In 1999, the institute published them together as one book: "Exploring the Biomedical Revolution."

Maya remains a contributing editor of the HHMI Bulletin.