Bruce Watson
Author and magazine writer
Bruce Watson is a writer and the author of Light, a history of humanity's long relationship with light. He writes for Smithsonian magazine and publishes the online magazine The Attic.
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About Bruce Watson
Bruce Watson wrote Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age, published by Bloomsbury in 2016. The book follows light through some three thousand years, from creation stories to the quantum age, and was nominated for an L.A. Times Book Prize in science. He has also written books on Freedom Summer, the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the 1912 Bread and Roses textile strike, along with short biographies of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Watson has written more than three dozen feature articles for Smithsonian. Pieces by him have also appeared in outlets including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He also writes The Attic, an online magazine of true stories about America.