Over the Edge of the World

Author Biography

LAURENCE BERGREEN is a prize-winning biographer and journalist. His previous books include Voyage to Mars: NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth, a narrative of NASA’s exploration of Mars and the search for extraterrestrial life, published in November 2000 by Penguin Putnam; it is also available on tape from HighBridge Audio. In 1997, Bantam Doubleday Dell published Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, a comprehensive biography drawing on unpublished manuscripts and exclusive interviews with Armstrong’s colleagues and friends. It appeared on many Best Books of 1997 lists, including those of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Publishers Weekly, and has been published in Germany, Finland, and Great Britain. In 1994, Simon & Schuster published his Capone: The Man and the Era. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection, it has been published in numerous foreign languages and was optioned by Miramax and was a New York Times Notable Book.

His groundbreaking biography, As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, appeared in 1990. This book won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award; it was also a New York Times Notable Book for 1990. His previous biography, James Agee: A Life, was also critically acclaimed and was a New York Times Notable Book for 1984. His first book was Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. He has written for many national publications, including Esquire, Newsweek, TV Guide, Details, Prologue, and Military History Quarterly. He has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as assistant to the president of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. In 1995, he served as a nonfiction judge for the National Book Award and in 1991 as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. He also serves as a featured historian for the History Channel.

Mr. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972. He is a member of PEN American Center, the Explorers Club, and the Authors Guild. He lives in New York.

For more information, visit the author on the web at www.LaurenceBergreen.com.

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