Alec Nevala-Lee was born in Castro Valley, California, and graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in classics. He is the author of the suspense novels The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire, all published by Penguin Books, as well as the nonfiction book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, released by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2018. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, including his novelette "The Boneless One," which was selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction, 29th Annual Edition, edited by Gardner Dozois. His nonfiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, Salon, Longreads, the Rumpus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.He lives with his wife and daughter in Oak Park, Illinois, and blogs at www.nevalalee.com.
