Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (Dey Street Books / HarperCollins), which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, an Economist best book of the year, and one of Esquire's fifty best biographies of all time. His previous book, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, was a Hugo and Locus Awards finalist and named one of the best books of 2018 by The Economist. He is the author of three suspense novels from Penguin, including The lcon Thief, and his work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and The Daily Beast. His current project is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis W. Alvarez, which is scheduled to be released by W.W. Norton in 2025.