Alan Lightman

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born

January 01, 1948

gender

male

place of birth

Memphis, TN, United States

website

http://mit.edu/humanistic/www/faculty/lightman.html

genre

Literature & Fiction, Science

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Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and essayist born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams.

books by Alan Lightman

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avg rating: 3.90 | 3555 ratings | 28 distinct works

	Einstein's Dreams (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 4.07 — 2501 ratings — published 2004 19 editions	my rating:
	Good Benito (Hardcover) by Alan Lightman avg rating 3.34 — 157 ratings — published 1998 5 editions	my rating:
	The Diagnosis: A Novel (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 2.76 — 154 ratings — published 2002 8 editions	my rating:
	Ghost: A Novel (Hardcover) by Alan Lightman avg rating 2.91 — 110 ratings — published 2007 2 editions	my rating:
	Reunion: A Novel (Hardcover) by Alan Lightman avg rating 3.19 — 64 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Dance for Two: Essays (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 3.81 — 37 ratings — published 1996 2 editions	my rating:
	A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 3.68 — 28 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	The Best American Essays 2000 (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (Paperback) by Alan Lightman avg rating 4.00 — 18 ratings — published 2006 4 editions	my rating:
	The Best American Science Writing 2002 (Best American Science Writing (Paperback)) by Matt Ridley, Alan Lightman avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2002	my rating:

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quotes by Alan Lightman

"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly."
— Alan Lightman (Einstein's Dreams)

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