{"id":2,"date":"2010-11-24T15:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.139.147.155\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:22:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/around.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

James Gleick is an author and journalist who writes about science and technology and their cultural consequences. His most recent book was Time Travel<\/em>. His next, coming in November, is The Telephone: A New History<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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He was born in New York City in 1954. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and helped found Metropolis, an alternative weekly newspaper in Minneapolis. Then he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times.<\/p>\r\n

His first book,\u00a0Chaos<\/em><\/a>, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller. He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on\u00a0Nature\u2019s Chaos<\/a>\u00a0and with developers at Autodesk on\u00a0Chaos: The Software<\/a>. In 2012 he published the best-selling\u00a0The Information<\/a>: A History, a Theory, a Flood<\/em>, winner of the\u00a0Royal Society Winton\u00a0Prize<\/a>. His other books include the best-selling biographies,\u00a0Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Isaac Newton<\/em>, both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as\u00a0Faster<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0What Just Happened<\/em>. They have been translated into thirty languages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In 1989-90 he was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. For some years he wrote the Fast Forward column in the New York Times Magazine. He contributes regularly to The New York Review<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He founded The Pipeline, a pioneering New York City-based internet service, with Uday Ivatury in 1993 and was its chairman and chief executive officer until 1995. He was the first editor of the Best American Science Writing series. He served as president of the Authors Guild<\/a>\u00a0from 2017\u201319.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He lives in New York and London.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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