Alan Lightman

 

 

 

 

ALAN LIGHTMAN - who worked for many years as a theoretical physicist - is the author of six novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, as well as The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of a memoir, three collections of essays, and several books on science. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Salon, and Nature, among other publications. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He lives in the Boston area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ada and the Galaxies By Alan Lightman, Olga Pastuchiv, Susanna Chapman (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781536215618
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Published: MIT Kids Press - September 7th, 2021

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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781524749019
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Published: Pantheon - February 9th, 2021

Three Flames: A Novel By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781640094253
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Published: Counterpoint - September 15th, 2020

Three Flames: A Novel By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781640092280
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Published: Counterpoint - September 3rd, 2019

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525432593
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Published: Vintage - February 19th, 2019

In Praise of Wasting Time (TED Books) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501154362
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Published: Simon & Schuster/ TED - May 15th, 2018

Screening Room: A Memoir of the South By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307739841
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Published: Vintage - February 23rd, 2016

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780345805959
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Published: Vintage - October 7th, 2014

Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (Vintage Contemporaries) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307744852
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Published: Vintage - October 30th, 2012

Ghost (Vintage Contemporaries) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780375713439
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Published: Vintage - October 14th, 2008

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780375713453
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Published: Vintage - November 14th, 2006

A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400078196
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Published: Vintage - January 3rd, 2006

Reunion (Vintage Contemporaries) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780375713446
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Published: Vintage - November 9th, 2004

Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400077809
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Published: Vintage - November 9th, 2004

The Diagnosis: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780375725500
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Published: Vintage - February 19th, 2002

Dance for Two: Essays By Alan Lightman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679758778
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Published: Pantheon - March 26th, 1996