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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)( )
Author: Leavitt, David
Series title:Great Discoveries Ser.
ISBN:978-0-393-34657-2
Publication Date:Nov 2006
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.

Book Details
Pages:336
Author Biography
Leavitt, David (Author)
David Leavitt's first collection of stories, "Family Dancing," was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award & the PEN/Faulkner Prize. "The Lost Language of Cranes" was made into a BBC film, & "While England Sleeps" was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. Leavitt is also the author of "Equal Affections," "A Place I've Never Been," "Arkansas," & "The Page Turner." With Mark Mitchell, he coedited "The Penguin Book of Short Stories" & "The Pages Passed from Hand to Hand" & cowrote "Italian Pleasures." He is recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation & the National Endowment for the Arts.

He divides his time between Italy and Florida.

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