Sam Kean

Sam Kean is the New York Times best-selling author of history, science and nonfiction novels. The author was brought up in South Dakota and thinks the world of the State. As a child, he loved reading and was a fast reader which meant he read a lot of books. As a teenager, she studied English and Physics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She then went on to become a teacher at a St. Paul experimental charter school in which the lessons were given at night. Once he grew tired of that, he tried to move to Europe but ended up going to Washington to study. He would get his library science masters degree from the Catholic University of America and this has helped him in the research for his novel even though he probably will never use it professionally.