作者简介
AlanLightmanistheauthorofsixnovels,includingtheinternationalbestsellerEinstein’sDreamsandTheDiagnosis,whichwasaNationalBookAwardfinalist.Heisalsotheauthoroftwocollectionsofessaysandseveralbooksonscience.HisworkhasappearedinTheAtlantic,Granta,Harper’sMagazine,TheNewYorker,TheNewYorkReviewofBooks,andNature,amongotherpublications.Atheoreticalphysicistaswellasawriter,hehasservedonthefacultiesofHarvardandMIT,wherehewasthefirstpersontoreceiveadualfacultyappointmentinscienceandthehumanities.HelivesintheBostonarea.
