Register below for a writing workshop by Richard Rhodes, historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” This workshop is intended for science- and engineering-focused audience.
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Biography of Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes is a member of the Yale Class of 1959, which celebrates its sixty-fifth reunion this year. He is the author or editor of twenty-six books including “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; “Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb,” which was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History; and, most recently, “Scientist,” a biography of the biologist Edward O. Wilson. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s “Frontline” and “American Experience” series. His play, “Reykjavik,” about the historic summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986, has been performed at Stanford University and in Washington, D.C. Rhodes has two children and four grandchildren and lives with his wife, Dr. Ginger Rhodes, a clinical psychologist, in Seattle, Washington.