Alec Nevala-Lee
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Alec Nevala-Lee

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Alec Nevala-Lee was born in Castro Valley, California, and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in classics. He is the author of the Hugo and Locus Awards finalist Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street Books / HarperCollins) and the novels The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire (Penguin). His book Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (Dey Street) was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and one of Esquire’s fifty best biographies of all time. Collisions, his biography of the physicist Luis W. Alvarez, will be released by W. W. Norton on June 10, 2025. His short stories have been published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Lightspeed Magazine, and two editions of The Year's Best Science Fiction, and his nonfiction has appeared in print and online in such publications as the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, Salon, Longreads, The Rumpus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He also edits a bimonthly puzzle feature, “Unknowns,” for Analog. His next book, Whiz Kids: The Oracles of RAND and the World They Made, will be published by Norton in 2028. He lives with his wife and daughter in Oak Park, Illinois.
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    • Astounding

    • John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
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    • Language: English
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