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James Gleick (;〔〕 born August 1, 1954) is an American author, historian of science, and sometime Internet pioneer whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for illuminating complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called “one of the great science writers of all time.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Study Guide: James Gleick )〕 Gleick's books include the international bestsellers ''Chaos: Making a New Science'' and ''The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=James Gleick: Bibliography )〕 Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists; and ''The Information'' was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012. They have been translated into more than thirty languages. ==Biography== A native of New York City, Gleick attended Harvard College, where he was an editor of the ''Harvard Crimson'', graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. He moved to Minneapolis and helped found an alternative weekly newspaper, ''Metropolis''. After its demise a year later, he returned to New York and in 1979 joined the staff of the ''New York Times''. He worked there for ten years as an editor on the metropolitan desk and then as a science reporter. Among the scientists Gleick profiled in the ''New York Times Magazine'' were Douglas Hofstadter, Stephen Jay Gould, Mitchell Feigenbaum, and Benoit Mandelbrot. His early reporting on Microsoft anticipated the antitrust investigations by the U. S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. He wrote the "Fast Forward" column in the New York Times Magazine from 1995 to 1999, and his essays charting the growth of the Internet formed the basis of his book ''What Just Happened''. His work has also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''the Atlantic'', ''Slate'', and the ''Washington Post'', and he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His first book, ''Chaos: Making a New Science'', reported the development of the new science of chaos and complexity. It made the Butterfly Effect a household word, introduced the Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry to a broad audience, and sparked popular interest in the subject, influencing such diverse writers as Tom Stoppard (''Arcadia'') and Michael Crichton (''Jurassic Park''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Gleick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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