Mark Alpert
Mark Alpert is a contributing editor at Scientific American and author of several science thrillers.
He holds an astrophysics degree from Princeton and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia.
Alpert's journalism career includes writing for Fortune, Popular Mechanics, and CNN. His novels blend cutting-edge science with high-energy plots, exploring concepts like relativity, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence.
The Six is his first Young Adult novel, focusing on dying teenagers whose minds are downloaded into Army robots.
Alpert lives in Manhattan with his family and is known for making complex scientific ideas accessible to readers through his fiction and non-fiction work.
