Evan Schwartz
Encyclopedia
Evan I. Schwartz is an American
author
who writes about innovation and imagination. He has written 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
.
His screenplay, Televisionaries, is a winner of a 2011 Tribeca/Sloan Filmmaker Grant, which supports science in cinema.
He 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
.
In April 2007, NOVA
premiered "Saved By the Sun", a documentary about solar energy in an age of climate change and rising fossil fuel
prices, co-written and produced by Schwartz.
Schwartz is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT's Technology Review. In 2008, he served as a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
jury at the Sundance Film Festival
.
In 2011, Schwartz joined Innosight Consulting as its Director of Storytelling.
His feature in WIRED about space junk was selected for the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
United States
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Author
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who writes about innovation and imagination. He has written The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television, the story of inventor Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device , the "image...
and his epic battle with RCA tycoon David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American commercial radio and television. He founded the National Broadcasting Company and throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his...
.
His screenplay, Televisionaries, is a winner of a 2011 Tribeca/Sloan Filmmaker Grant, which supports science in cinema.
He is also the author of Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
Discovered the Great American Story, a narrative about the origins of a cultural icon, The Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of...
.
In April 2007, NOVA
NOVA (TV series)
Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries...
premiered "Saved By the Sun", a documentary about solar energy in an age of climate change and rising fossil fuel
Fossil fuel
Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years...
prices, co-written and produced by Schwartz.
Schwartz is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT's Technology Review. In 2008, he served as a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.Each winner is presented...
jury at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
.
In 2011, Schwartz joined Innosight Consulting as its Director of Storytelling.
His feature in WIRED about space junk was selected for the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
Books
- Webonomics (Broadway BooksBroadway BooksBroadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc., released its first list in Fall, 1996. Broadway Books has since published many New York Times bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, including Elizabeth Edwards’ memoir Resilience, Bill O’Reilly’s memoir A...
, 1997)
- Digital Darwinism (Broadway BooksBroadway BooksBroadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc., released its first list in Fall, 1996. Broadway Books has since published many New York Times bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, including Elizabeth Edwards’ memoir Resilience, Bill O’Reilly’s memoir A...
, 1999)
- The Last Lone Inventor (HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 2002)
- Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives World Class Inventors (Harvard Business PressHarvard Business PressHarvard Business Press is the book-specific division of Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School, based in Boston, MA.The Press publishes general interest books in addition to business books...
, 2004)
- Finding Oz (Houghton MifflinHoughton MifflinHoughton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...
2009)
External links
- Review of The Last Lone Inventor
- Review in Los Angeles Times of "Finding Oz"
- Nova: Saved By the Sun
- Author's Website