James Gleick
Science historian and author
James Gleick is an American author and historian of science who writes about how technology shapes culture. His first book, Chaos, told the story of chaos theory.
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American Born 1954 in New York City, United States
About James Gleick
Gleick was born in New York City in 1954 and graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. He spent ten years at the New York Times as an editor and reporter, and he wrote the Fast Forward technology column for its magazine from 1995 to 1999. In 1993 he launched an Internet service called The Pipeline. Chaos, first published in 1987, became an international bestseller and brought the Butterfly Effect into everyday language. Genius is his biography of the physicist Richard Feynman. Three of his books were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and for the National Book Award, and The Information won the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books in 2012.