| Welcome! I'm Mark Wolverton, author of The Science of Superman and The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. Here you'll find out more about me and my various projects, including my latest book, A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer, now available at bookstores everywhere from St. Martin's Press!
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"A sympathetic account of a brilliant but enigmatic giant of 20th-century science." ~ Kirkus
“A Life in Twilight is a sensitive, engaging, and wonderfully readable rendering of the sad final decade of an American patriot brutalized by the destructive politics of the McCarthy era. As such, it is a welcome and vitally important contribution to our understanding of this complex man as well as of some of the consequences to our society when we allow government officials to use fear as a political weapon.”
~ Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 2006 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
"Wolverton brings sensitivity, insight, and convincing research to this attempt at encompassing the last 13 years of J. Robert Oppenheimer's life." ~ Library Journal
“The story of Robert Oppenheimer’s last years as told by Mark Wolverton makes an intense, compelling book. We need reminding of the price this country paid for the hounding of a great man: not just for the paranoia and vindictiveness of scoundrels like J. Edgar Hoover and Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer’s chief persecutors, but for the way others---from President Eisenhower down---allowed the disaster to happen.”
~ Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon’s Trumpet, Portrait of a Decade, and Make No Law
"Opens a revealing window onto the intellectual climate of the cold war." ~ Publishers Weekly
For a sneak preview, watch my book trailer below...
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As of April 15, 2009...
- Was Oppenheimer really the "tormented scientist" of popular myth? I ponder the subject in this essay for the online Philadelphia magazine, Broad Street Review. While you're there, check out the other pieces I've done recently for the Broad Street Review on the Philly arts scene.
- Discover how a handful of dedicated researchers are fighting a "War on Ice" in the Winter 2009 issue of American Heritage of Invention & Technology.
- Find out how some alumni of Philadelphia's Temple University are winning a different war -- on infectious disease -- in the latest issue of the Temple Review.
- See how my new book, A Life in Twilight, holds up to the Page 99 Test.
- Read an interview I did for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin on A Life in Twilight.
- If you're in the mood for a little hard science, take a look at my latest web article for the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory.
- And here's a link to a newspaper article about the upcoming film adaptation of my play "Machines in Love."
Upcoming Appearances...
More appearances are in the works...details here as they're confirmed.
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