James Gleick

James Gleick is an American author and historian of science. He was born in New York in 1954. He studied English literature and linguistics at Harvard University, graduating in 1976. From 1978 to 1988, he worked as a science editor at "The New York Times," and from 1989 to 1990, he taught at Princeton University. In 1993, he founded the internet services company "The Pipeline." He is considered a leading chronicler of science and modern technology. He is the author of "Chaos: Making a New Science" (1987), "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" (1992), "What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier" (2002), and "Isaac Newton" (2004). His book "The Information" (published by Travlos) was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012, as well as the Winton Prize of the Royal Society (for Science Books in 2012). His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in New York.