Alec Nevala-Lee
Alec Nevala-Lee | |
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| Born | May 31, 1980 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Genre | Science fiction, Biography, Thriller |
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Alec Nevala-Lee (born May 31, 1980) is an American biographer, novelist, critic, and science fiction writer. He was a Hugo and Locus Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
His book Inventor of the Future, a biography of the architectural designer and futurist Buckminster Fuller, was selected by Esquire as one of the fifty best biographies of all time.
Collisions, his biography of the physicist Luis W. Alvarez, was an Economist best book of the year.
His next book will be Whiz Kids, a history of the RAND analysts recruited by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during the Kennedy administration. He also edits puzzles for the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact.