Neal Stephenson Biography

About Neal Stephenson

Born in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubbed "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

Books

Novels
The Big U
Zodiac
Snow Crash
Interface
The Diamond Age
The Cobweb
Cryptonomicon
Quicksilver
The Confusion
The System of the World
Anathem

Short Fiction
Spew
The Great Simoleon Caper
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip

Non-Fiction
Smiley’s people
In the Kingdom of Mao Bell
Mother Earth Mother Board
Global Neighborhood Watch
In the Beginning...was the Command Line
Communication Prosthetics: Threat, or Menace?
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out
It’s All Geek To Me

About Neal Stephenson