At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...

The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if it suited his narrative ends, does it again in his final book: a fresh ...

“IT is estimated,” so Mr. Francis Arthur Jones tells us, “that if everything that has ever been written and published about Edison were collected and re-published in book form, it would make a library ...

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as ...