![]() ![]() Early life īorn on October 31, 1959, in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. ![]() Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, historical fiction, essays ![]()
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From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm, and it was there that what was to become Jansson’s most famous creation, Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in the 1940s and ’50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. ![]() Her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. ![]() ![]() Jansson loved books as a child and set out from an early age to be an artist. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. 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