Evan Schwartz (author)

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Evan I. Schwartz is an American author who writes about history, innovation, tech, music, and media.

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He has written five non-fiction books, including 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, named by Amazon Books as one of "100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime," [1] and included on Fortune's list of "75 Smartest Business Books We Know." [2]

Schwartz 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 . [3] [4] In 2021, PBS American Experience aired American Oz, [5] a documentary that featured him and the book. [6]

His debut novel, Revolver, is a rock 'n' roll love story issued in 2021 by the Concord Free Press as a free, "advance reader" edition for readers who may choose to make a donation to any cause or charity. [7] [8]

In April 2007, NOVA premiered "Saved By the Sun", a documentary about the unlimited potential of solar energy in an age of climate change, co-written and produced by Schwartz. [9]

Schwartz is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT's Technology Review. [10] In 2008, he served as a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize jury at the Sundance Film Festival. [11]

From 2011 to 2019, Schwartz was Director of Storytelling at Innosight, where he co-authored a study on the world's most transformative companies. [12] Since 2020, he's served as a team member and storyteller for Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021).

His feature in WIRED about space junk was selected for the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series. [13] Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Science from Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y.

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  1. ↑ "Amazon.com: 100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  2. ↑ "The Smartest Books We Know - March 21, 2005". archive.fortune.com. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  3. ↑ Bernheimer, Kate (May 10, 2009). "'Finding Oz' by Evan I. Schwartz, 'Cheek by Jowl' by Ursula K. Le Guin". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  4. ↑ Gurdon, Meghan Cox (April 23, 2009). "In Search of Auntie Em". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  5. ↑ "American Oz | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  6. ↑ American OZ, American Experience, April 19, 2021, retrieved November 7, 2021
  7. ↑ Brewer, Robert Lee. "Evan I. Schwartz: The Rock 'n Roll of Non-Profit Publishing". Writer's Digest. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  8. ↑ "'Revolver' By Evan Schwartz: A Love Letter To Rock And Roll And John Lennon". News. September 17, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Saved By the Sun". www.pbs.org. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  10. ↑ "The German Experiment". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  11. ↑ "2008 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Members" (PDF). January 7, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 25, 2008.
  12. ↑ Anthony, Scott D.; Trotter, Alasdair; Schwartz, Evan I. (September 24, 2019). "The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade". Harvard Business Review. ISSN   0017-8012 . Retrieved November 7, 2021.
  13. ↑ Roach, Mary; Folger, Tim (October 4, 2011). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-547-67846-7.
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