William Poundstone

William Poundstone is an American author, columnist, and skeptic. He has written a number of books including the Big Secrets series and a biography of Carl Sagan. He is a cousin of comedian Paula Poundstone.

An enthusiast of Harry Stephen Keeler, he maintains the Keeler homepage and contributed to the anthology A to Izzard: A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion (2002).

Bibliography

• Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know. 1983. 
• The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. 1984. ISBN 978-0809252022. 
• Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out. 1986. 
• Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. 1988. 
• The Ultimate: The Great Armchair Debates Settled Once and for All. 1990. 
• Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb. 1992. ISBN 978-0385415804. 
• Biggest Secrets: More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know. 1993. 
• Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos. 1999. 
• The Big Book of Big Secrets. 2001.  reprints Big Secrets and Biggest Secrets
• How Would You Move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle—How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers. 2003. 
• Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. 2005. ISBN 978-0809045990. 
• Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It). 2008. 
• Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It). 2010. 
• Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?. 2011. 
• Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody. 2014. ISBN 978-0316228060. 
• Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up. 2016. ISBN 978-0316256544. 

External links

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• Official website
• Poundstone, William. "Web Projects". Retrieved 9 October 2012. 
• Fortune's Formula official site
• William Poundstone's talk at Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series (Video)