Stuart Rojstaczer

Stuart Rojstaczer is the author of two books, a novel, The Mathematician's Shiva (Penguin, 2014), and an academic memoir, Gone for Good (Oxford, 1999). Aside from his book writing, Rojstaczer has written articles about education for the New York Times and Washington Post and has written research articles in geophysics, hydrology, geology and ecology for the magazines Science and Nature. He has been a professor of geophysics at Duke University and an award-winning songwriter and musician.

He has received the National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction, the Friends of American Writers Literature Award, and has been an American Library Association Sophie Brody Medal Finalist. He has given lectures at over 50 universities in the US, Canada, Asia, and Europe and has appeared on NPR, CNN and ESPN. He was born in Milwaukee and lives with his wife in northern California. 

For more about Stuart and his works, go to http://www.stuartr.com/