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James Gleick
History & Commentary
James Gleick is an American author and historian of science who uses narrative nonfiction to explore complex ideas and technology’s cultural impact.
Biography
James Gleick is an American author and historian of science, born August 1, 1954. His work explores the cultural impact of modern technology, using narrative nonfiction to explain complex subjects. His writing combines historical accounts, explanations of scientific theories, and portraits of the people behind them.
His books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). Three of his books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. The Information received the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books in 2012. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Books by James Gleick
The Information
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood traces communication technologies from African talking drums to long-distance telephones and explores the intellectual history of information theory. It examines symbolic written language and the contributions of figures including Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, and Alan Turing.