About

I'm the Authors Guild president. I've been a working writer for forty years and an author for about thirty. I began as a journalist, at the New York Times and elsewhere, and then started writing books. My latest is about time travel.

A more factual, third-person sort of bio can be found here.

Other Works

  • The Information

    2012
  • Isaac Newton

    2003
  • What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier

    2002
  • Faster

    1999
  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    1992
  • Chaos: Making a New Science

    1987

Awards and Recognition

  • Royal Society Winton Prize (2012)
  • PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2012)
  • Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History (2012)