Evan Schwartz (author)
Evan I. Schwartz is an American author who writes about innovation. He has written The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television, the story of inventor Philo Farnsworth and his epic battle with RCA tycoon David Sarnoff.
His screenplay, Televisionaries, was a winner of a 2011 Tribeca/Sloan Filmmaker Grant, which supports science in cinema.
He is also the author of Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, a narrative about the origins of a cultural icon, The Wizard of Oz.
In April 2007, NOVA premiered "Saved By the Sun", a documentary about solar energy in an age of climate change and rising fossil fuel prices, co-written and produced by Schwartz.
Schwartz is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT's Technology Review. In 2008, he served as a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize jury at the Sundance Film Festival.[1]
In 2011, Schwartz joined Innosight Consulting as its Director of Storytelling.
His feature in WIRED about space junk was selected for the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
Books
- Webonomics (Broadway Books, 1997)
- Digital Darwinism (Broadway Books, 1999)
- The Last Lone Inventor (HarperCollins, 2002)
- Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives World Class Inventors (Harvard Business Press, 2004)
- Finding Oz (Houghton Mifflin 2009)
References
- ^ "2008 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Members" (PDF). 2008-01-07.
External links
- Author's Website
- Review of The Last Lone Inventor
- Review in Los Angeles Times of "Finding Oz"
- Nova: Saved By the Sun