JOEL SHURKIN'S WEB PAGE
I am a writer-historian specializing in medicine, science and history. I have ten published books, hundreds of articles for magazines. I have been at this for a long time.
Three
of my books are definitive. Engines
of the Mind is history of the computer, the only true history
of the two men who invented the electronic, general-purpose,
programmable computer and what happened to them. It has been updated
once and published in English and Japanese. The
Invisible Fire is the only complete book on the history of
smallpox and how it was eradicated. In each case, the first half of the
books was written as an historian, the last half as a journalist,
involving complex, multiple interviews with the people involved.
Neither books 
will ever be outdated or
matched. To research Terman's
Kids, I became the only writer let into the private files of
Lewis Terman and his historic study of gifted children. In all three
cases, you cannot research these subjects without running into me.
My ninth book, Broken Genius, the Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Father of the Electronic Age, will be published in June 2006, and is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
I
was one of three lead writers in the Philadelphia Inquirer coverage
of Three Mile Island, which won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting,
and was chief space reporter for Reuters
, covering the moon landings. I
also served as a foreign correspondent for United Press International
in the Middle East in 1967, and a war correspondent in the Dominican
Republic. I reported from Antarctica for both the Inquirer and Reuters.
I have been the science writer at Stanford University and founder of
the science journalism internship program there, and worked as a
consultant to high-tech companies and two foundations. I am finishing
the first biography of physicist William Shockley and a book on suicide
terrorism. I am a senior fellow at the National Center for the
Psychology of Terrorism at Stanford.
Science and Medicine- Cabbages and Kings
Jewish Journalism- Yussel