Richard Morris (author)

For other people named Richard Morris, see Richard Morris (disambiguation).

Richard Ward Morris (1939August 28, 2003) was an American author, editor, and poet.

Richard Ward Morris

Richard Morris received his MS in physics from the University of New Mexico and his PhD in physics from the University of Nevada, before he moved to San Francisco,[1] where he started the magazine Camels Coming. In 1968, he established and became the executive director of the committee of small magazine editors and publishers (COSMEP). His COSMEP newsletter guided classic little magazines and underground hippie tabloids right through the Vietnam War into the Ronald Reagan era. He published as well poetry, fiction and drama; his selected poetry, Assyrians, was published in 1991 by "The Smith". The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul deviated from his usual fare, but evolution and the controversies surrounding it through history had become his interest later in life.

Beginning in 1979, Morris became known to the wider world as the author of a series of mainstream science books. These texts were translated and published to Good Reads[2] in dozens of countries. He still continued publishing small-press collections of poetry and drama, which were read mostly by his friends and peers.

He published more than 20 books in his lifetime, many of which were written to "explain the intricacies of science to the general public". His literary style and narrative talents allowed for easy reading of what were otherwise heady and intellectual topics, bringing sometimes abstract scientific ideas to a level the common person could understand.

His final work, The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table, was published posthumously in 2003.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Richard Morris, PhD". Macmillan website. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  2. http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/73915.Richard_Morris
  3. Carmen J. Giunta, "Book review: Richard Morris: The Last Sorcerers", Foundations of Chemistry, Volume 9, Number 1 (2007), 97-100, DOI: 10.1007/s10698-006-9005-y
  4. Tim Radford, "Peer Review", The Guardian (UK), 28 July 2005
  5. "The Last Sorcerers". National Academies Press website. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  6. "Review: Achilles in the Quantum Universe", Kirkus Reviews
  7. "Review: Cosmic Questions", Kirkus Reviews
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