Mark Alpert
1961
Mark Alpert is one of the well known authors from America, who is famous for writing techno-thriller, young adult, and science fiction novels. He also works as an editor at the Scientific American. Author Alpert forayed into the fiction world for the first time with the short story, My Life With Joanne Christiansen. This short story was published in the year 1991 by Playboy. Author Alpert wrote and published his debut novel in the year 2008, which is known as the Final Theory. This novel has been optioned by the Radar Pictures for making a movie based on it. By being involved in the world of journalism for so many years, author Alpert has become a specialist in making the readers understand the scientific ideas and simplifying the esoteric concepts like parallel universes and extra dimensions. He has also started weaving such scientific ideas into his thriller novels, which elucidate actual technologies and theories. Author Alpert says that he has been a science geek all his life. He obtained his major from the Princeton University in the subject of astrophysics. Alpert penned the undergraduate thesis based on theory of relativity’s application to a hypothetical universe having only 2 spatial dimensions, Which is known as Flatland. His thesis paper was published in the General Relativity & Gravitation Journal. The paper has also been cited in over a hundred scholarly articles. Following his graduation from Princeton, Alpert enrolled himself at the Columbia University in a program in creative writing. From the same university, he obtained his MFA in poetry in the year 1984. Immediately after this, author Alpert his career in journalism. He began by working as a small town reporter at the Claremont Eagle Times. Later, he switched to work for the Montgomery Advertiser. The year 1987 saw him working as a reporter for the Fortune Magazine. During the course of the next 5 years, Alpert wrote articles based on the emerging technologies and computer technology.