Robert Kanigel is the author of six previous books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. His book "The Man Who Knew Infinity "was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including "The New York Times Magazine", "The New York Times Book Review", "Harvard Magazine", and "Psychology Today". He has just retired as Professor of Science Writing at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now lives in Baltimore.