Alan Lightman, Ph.D., currently Senior Lecturer in Physics at M.I.T., received the Association of American Publishers Award for the best book in physical science for Origins. His writing appears in the "Atlantic", "Granta", "Harpers", "The New Yorker", "The New York Review of Books", and elsewhere. He is the author of "The New York Times" bestseller, "Einstein's Dreams" and "Good Benito".