Heather Pringle is a Canadian freelance science writer who mostly writes about archaeology.^[1][2] Before becoming a writer, Pringle worked as a museum researcher and book editor.^[1] Her 2006 book The Master Plan detailed Heinrich Himmler's establishment of the Ahnenerbe in a pseudo-scientific attempt to manufacture evidence and "prove" Aryan superiority.^[3][4] It won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.^[2][5] Her previous work includes The Mummy Congress, as well as articles for National Geographic and Archaeology magazine. Pringle is emeritus editor at Hakai Magazine and has been awarded a Canadian National Magazine Award^[6] and an AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Kavli Foundation.^[7][8]