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RICHARD RHODES is the author or editor of twenty-five books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in History; an investigation of the roots of private violence, Why They Kill; a personal memoir, A Hole in the World; a biography, John James Audubon;
and four novels. He has received numerous fellowships for research and
writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim
Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and
Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting
scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for
documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. His most recent book, Hell and Good Company, is
currently in bookstores. Rhodes lectures frequently to audiences in the
United States and abroad (see Lecturing tab, above). With his wife
Ginger Rhodes, a clinical psychologist in private practice in San
Francisco, he lives above Half Moon Bay, California.
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