Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her scientific research concerns the early universe, chaos, and black holes.
Levin is the author of the popular science book, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite time in a Finite Space. Her second book—and first novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf, 2006)—won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers that "honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work . . . represents distinguished literary achievement . . . " It was also a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award for "a distinguished book of first fiction."
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