The Man Who Invented the Computer

by Jane Smiley

  Atanasoff, John V. Interview conducted by Bonnie Kaplan, August 28, 1977, for the Computer Oral History Collection, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Repository, Archives Center.

  Cox, Kirwan. Author interview, February 22, 2010.

  Gustafson, John. Author interview, February 22, 2010.

  Gustafson, John. Personal communications, March and April 2010.

  Rhodes, Richard. Personal communications, April 2010.

  Travis, Irven. Interview conducted by Nancy Stern, October 21, 1977, for the Charles Babbage Institute, The Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, p. 18.

  About the Author

  Jane Smiley is the author of fifteen works of fiction for adults and young adults, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Thousand Acres, and four works of nonfiction. Private Life, her most recent adult novel, was published in 2010 to critical acclaim. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature in 2006. She lives in northern California.