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William Gurstelle (born 29 March 1956) is an American nonfiction author, magazine writer, and inventor. He is the author of several science “how-to” books published by Crown Books/Random House and Chicago Review Press. His best known books are Backyard Ballistics, which according to Newsweek Magazine, has sold more than 160,000 copies1 and The Art of the Catapult. According to James A. Buczynski in Library Journal, Gurstelle's writing "balances scientific explanations of the technologies with profiles of the people who [explore] them."
He is also contributing editor and regular columnist for Make Magazine.
Selected Bibliography
- Backyard Ballistics (2001, nonfiction)
- Building Bots (2002, nonfiction)
- The Art of the Catapult (2003, nonfiction)
- Adventures from the Technology Underground (2005, nonfiction)
- Whoosh Boom Splat (2007, nonfiction)
References
- ^ Steven Levy in Newsweek, Feb 13, 2006
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