Biography
Born in New York City, Gleick attended Harvard University, graduating in 1976 with his bachelor's degree in English and linguistics. Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and as a free-lance writer in Boston, Massachusetts, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. After its demise, he returned to New York and joined as staff of the New York Times, where he worked for ten years as an editor and reporter.
After the publication of Chaos, Gleick collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature's Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. He was the McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University in 1989-90. In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. He was the first editor of the Best American Science Writing series.
Gleick is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar.
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