Richard Rhodes (writer)

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Richard Rhodes (born July 4, 1937 in Kansas City ) is an American non-fiction author and science journalist, best known for his books on the history of the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb . He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb .

Rhodes had a difficult childhood, which he tells in his book A hole in the world . He went to a school for orphans (Andrew Drumm Institute in Independence, Missouri) and studied history on a scholarship from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1959. He then became a journalist and published numerous books, both novels and non-fiction. Best known is his award-winning book on the Manhattan Project , which has been translated into numerous languages, received many awards (in addition to the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award) and is considered a standard work. This was followed by books on the history of the hydrogen bomb (Dark Sun), for which he was awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize , and books on the nuclear arms race and civilian use of nuclear energy and the dangers of nuclear weapons after the end of the Cold War, for example in the hands of terrorists. He also wrote a biography of John James Audubon , about motives for murder, Hedy Lamarr (Hedy´s Folly), the research of the prions and Daniel Gajdusek (Deadly Feasts), about SS task forces and the beginning of the Holocaust and the Spanish civil war (Hell and Good Company).

He lives in Half Moon Bay , California with his wife, Ginger Rhodes, a PhD psychiatrist with her own practice in San Francisco, and they have two children.

He has received Guggenheim and Sloan Foundation grants and

Fonts (selection)

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Simon and Schuster 1986
    • German edition: The atomic bomb or the story of the 8th day of creation . Greno, Nördlingen, 1988
  • Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense about Energy , New York: Whittle Books 1993
  • How to Write: Advice and Reflections , New York: Morrow 1995
  • Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb , Touchstone 1996
  • Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, Simon and Schuster 1997
  • Why they Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist , New York: A. Knopf 1999
  • A Hole in the World. An American Boyhood , Simon and Schuster 1990, University Press of Kansas 2000
  • Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust , New York, Knopf 2002
  • John James Audubon: The Making of an American , Knopf 2004
  • The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons , New York: Knopf, 2010
  • Hedy´s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World , Doubleday 2011
  • Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made , Simon and Schuster 2015

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Including The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party , New York 1973, reissued in 2007 by Stanford University Press
personal data
SURNAME Rhodes, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City