My Books

-- Love and language, happiness and sorrow, on the Great Blasket Island. (Due out from Knopf, February 2012)
-- A much-loved natural material and its man-made imitators.
-- A popular history of tourism through the lens of Nice, France
-- The man who taught us not to stop and smell the roses
-- A rags to intellectual riches story of genius incarnate.
-- Masters and apprentices among elite scientists

Old News

August, 2010 -- Faux Real published in paperback by University of Pennsylvania Press.

2008 -- The Man Who Knew Infinity issued in a Greek edition by Travlos.

April, 2008 -- Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for my upcoming book about Ireland's Great Blasket Island.

2007 -- The Man Who Knew Infinity published in audio form by Blackstone.

2007 -- A Thai edition of The Man Who Knew Infinity brought out by Matichon.

January, 2007 -- "Taylorism Up Close and Personal," review of Hugh G. Aitken's Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, appears in Technology and Culture.

May 15, 2006, MIT -- panel discussion following staged reading of Partition, by Ira Hauptmann, play based on life of Ramanujan

March 8, 2006 -- History Channel's "Modern Marvels: Leather," on-air interview

October 8, 2005, Portland, Oregon -- National Coalition of Independent Scholars and Northwest Independent Scholars Association joint conference, keynote address

August, 2005 -- "The Science Essay" in Field Guide for Science Writers, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, edited by Deborah Blum, Robin Marantz Henig, and Mary Knudson

May 7, 2005, MIT -- Media in Transition 4: The Work of Stories, "Narratives of Science," panel with Alan Lightman and Thomas Levenson

March, 2005 -- The One Best Way came out in a new paperback edition from MIT Press

March 2005, Venice -- Matematica e Cultura 2005 conference, lecture, "The Biography of a Mathematician," published as "Un saggio su Ramanujan," in Matematica e Cultura 2006, edited by Michele Emmer, Springer, 2006

December 2004 -- named to advisory council, Princeton Research Forum

November 2, 2003, Genoa -- Festival della Scienza, "L'uomo che vide l'infinito," lecture on Ramanujan

2003 -- New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, article on Srinivasa Ramanujan