Marfe Ferguson Delano MARFE FERGUSON DELANO is the author of 15 books for National Geographic, including Genius, A Photobiograhy of Albert Einstein, which was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison. Her latest titles for National Geographic are Helen's Eyes, a Photobiography of Annie Sullivan and Master George's People. Delano is a graduate of Duke University.