Author Bio
• Birth—February 4, 1950
• Where—N/A
• Education—Harvard University
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York
Laurence Bergreen is a historian and biographer who lives in New York City.
A Harvard graduate, he worked in journalism, academia and broadcasting before publishing his first biography, James Agee: A Life. He has also written biographies of Irving Berlin, Al Capone, and Louis Armstrong.
Bergreen has also written on historical subjects, including Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth, a narrative of NASA's exploration of Mars; Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe; Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu; and Columbus: The Four Voyages.
Bergreen has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek and Esquire. He taught at The New School in New York, and served as Assistant to the President of The Paley Center for Media. Bergreen frequently lectures at major universities and symposia, and is a Featured Historian for The History Channel.
In 2007, Bergreen was asked by NASA to name some geological features surrounding the Victoria crater on Mars, based on places Ferdinand Magellan visited. In 2008, Bergreen was a keynote speaker at NASA's 50th anniversary event in Washington, D.C. (From Widipedia.)