Gene Brewer

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Gene R. Brewer (born July 4, 1937 in Muncie , Indiana ) is an American writer.

Life

Gene Brewer studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle , Indiana and received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison , Wisconsin . He had research projects on DNA replication and cell division at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis , Tennessee and at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio .

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Brewer is best known for his K-PAX trilogy, which is about an alien named prot in a mental hospital. The first novel on this was published in 1995 and was filmed by Iain Softley under the title K-PAX (German title: K-PAX - Everything is possible ), and it was premiered in 2010. prot visits the earth again in the next two novels. In the fourth novel, published in 2007, a woman from the planet K-PAX visits earth. The fourth novel is an invitation to veganism and equal treatment of apes .

His first novel was translated into German, Spanish and Czech, among others.

bibliography

K-PAX
  • 1 K-PAX (1995)
    • German: As if from a strange star. Translated by Klaus Fröba. Goldmann, 1996, ISBN 3-442-43311-8 .
  • 2 K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light (2001)
  • 3 K-Pax III: The Worlds of Prot (2002)
  • 4 K-Pax IV: A New Visitor from the Constellation Lyra (2007)
  • K-PAX: The Trilogy (2004, collective edition from 1–3)
  • Prot's Report (short story, 2004, in: Gene Brewer: K-PAX: The Trilogy )

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personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Gene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brewer, Gene R. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Muncie , Indiana