Books by Alec Nevala-Lee
Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of the Hugo Award finalist Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, as well as Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, which was selected by Esquire as one of the fifty best biographies of all time. His biography of Luis W. Alvarez, Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, will be published by W. W. Norton in June. He served on the jury for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and he recently participated in the New York Times survey of the best books of the 21st century. His work has appeared in print and online in such publications as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and the Daily Beast. He lives with his wife, the NPR host Wailin Wong, and their daughter in Oak Park, Illinois.
Interviews with Alec Nevala-Lee
The Best Isaac Asimov Books, recommended by Alec Nevala-Lee
Isaac Asimov is a sci fi icon who wrote over four hundred books – which can make it hard to know where to begin. Alec Nevala-Lee, author of the group biography Astounding, is our guide to this enormous body of work: he tells us where to find Asimov’s best short stories, which of his novels show his true colours, and why his highly readable nonfiction made him a superstar.
