James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.
13 Facts About James Gleick
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James Gleick is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm.
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James Gleick's books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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James Gleick moved to Minneapolis and helped found an alternative weekly newspaper, Metropolis.
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James Gleick worked there for ten years as an editor on the metropolitan desk and then as a science reporter.
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James Gleick's early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the US Department of Justice and the European Commission.
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James Gleick wrote the "Fast Forward" column in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999, and his essays charting the growth of the Internet formed the basis of his book What Just Happened.
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James Gleick's work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, and The Washington Post, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.
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James Gleick sold The Pipeline in 1995 to PSINet, where it was later absorbed into MindSpring and then EarthLink.
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On December 20,1997, James Gleick was attempting to land his Rutan Long-EZ experimental plane at Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford, New Jersey, when a build-up of ice in the engine's carburetor caused the aircraft engine to lose power and the plane landed short of the runway into rising terrain.
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The impact killed James Gleick's adopted eight-year-old son, Harry, and left James Gleick seriously injured.
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James Gleick was the first editor of The Best American Science Writing series.
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James Gleick was elected president of the Authors Guild in 2017.