Alec Nevala-Lee

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club The Week Magazine Book of the Week From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer...

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club The Week Magazine Book of the Week From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer...

Nobel Prize–winning experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez (1911–1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bomb and went on to conduct groundbreaking work on the building of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the assassination of JFK, and the extinction of the dinosaurs. One of the preeminent scientists of the twentieth century, Alvarez was as obstinate as he was brilliant. He testified...