While some may say this makes it a less informative book, for me this made it one of the most intriguing non-fiction books I have read. Instead he focusses on giving a poetic account of the scientists who first stumbled on it - and their great surprise and their struggles form the narrative crux of the book. Gleick only gives an introduction about the actual science and beauty of Chaos. (ISBN 1400032954)Ģ011 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. (ISBN 0060957360)Ģ002 What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier, Pantheon. (ISBN 067977548X)Ģ000 (editor) The Best American Science Writing 2000, HarperCollins. (ISBN 0679747044)ġ999 Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Pantheon. (ISBN 0316609420)ġ992 Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Pantheon. (ISBN 0140092501)ġ990 (with Eliot Porter) Nature's Chaos, Viking Penguin.

His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Washington Post.ġ987 Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Penguin. Gleick's essays charting the growth of the Internet included the 'Fast Forward' column on technology in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999 and formed the basis of his book What Just Happened. Department of Justice and the European Commission. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. His first book, Chaos: Making a New Science, an international best-seller, chronicled the development of chaos theory and made the Butterfly Effect a household phrase.Īmong the scientists Gleick profiled were Mitchell Feigenbaum, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Feynman and Benoit Mandelbrot. Gleick is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar.

In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter.

Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.īorn in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology.

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