Richard Rhodes is the author of twenty-seven books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in History; and two further volumes of nuclear history.
Rhodes, a 1959 graduate of Yale University, has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford universities and a host and correspondent for documentaries on American television. With his wife, the clinical psychologist Dr. Ginger Rhodes, he lives in Seattle, Washington, USA.