Gene Brewer
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Gene Brewer | |
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| Born | Gene R. Brewer[1] July 4, 1937 Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | DePauw University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Gene Brewer (born Gene R. Brewer, July 4, 1937) is an American writer, the author of the K-PAX book series,[2] about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: K-PAX (novel) (1995), On a Beam of Light (2001), K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot (2002), K-PAX IV (2007) K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks (2014) and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a film in 2001, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.[2]
Brewer was born in Muncie, Indiana.[1]
He was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division, then became a novelist.[3]
Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife.
