Pulitzer prize-winning author, Richard Rhodes, will be at Borders Books and Music for a talk and book signing Saturday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m. Rhodes overcame a history of childhood abuse to become an award-winning author. He has examined a
Pulitzer prize-winning author, Richard Rhodes, will be at Borders Books and
Music for a talk and book signing Saturday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.
Rhodes
overcame a history of childhood abuse to become an award-winning author. He
has examined a broad range of topics in the 17 books he has penned to date,
including “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in
General Nonfiction, A National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle
Award.
Another book by Rhodes, “Dark Sun,” which traces the development of
the hydrogen bomb and how it became the defining issue of the Cold War,
received the History of Science Society’s Watson Davis and Helen Miles prize,
and was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in history.
He also
wrote “Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.” In this
book, he offers a commanding perspective on human violence and challenges
conventional theories about violent behavior.
Shedding light on the
emergence of a new group of bizarre, deadly brain disease that kill 100 percent
of the animals and humans they infect, Rhodes’ “Deadly Feasts: Tracking the
Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague” reveals for the first time in a book for
general readers the path-breaking research that led to the discovery of
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
The most commonly known is mad
cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), which has infected hundreds of
thousands of cattle in Great Britain and Europe.
In a book published last
year — “Visions of Technology” — Rhodes brings together more than 200
writings about the unexpected and complex ways that technology has shaped human
life in the twentieth century, and how it is likely to affect our
future.
Besides the prestigious awards bestowed upon him, Rhodes has also
received numerous fellowship for research and writing and is an advisor to the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A Kansas native and 1959 honors graduate of Yale
University, Rhodes now lives in rural Connecticut. Fore more information, call
Borders at 246-0862.
