Evan I. Schwartz is an American author who writes about history, innovation, tech, music, and media. He has written five non-fiction books, including ''The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television'', the story of inventor

Philo Farnsworth Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971), "The father of television", was the American inventor and pioneer who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States Government. Burns, R. W. (1998), ''Televisi ...

and his epic battle with

RCA RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent pool, patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghou ...

tycoon

David Sarnoff David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian and American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio and television. He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in ...

, named by Amazon Books as one of "100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime," and included on Fortune's list of "75 Smartest Business Books We Know." Schwartz is also the author of ''Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story'', a narrative about the origins of a cultural icon, '' The Wizard of Oz''. In 2021, PBS American Experience aired American Oz, a documentary that featured him and the book. His debut novel, ''Revolver'', is a rock 'n' roll love story issued in 2021 by the Concord Free Press as a free, "advance reader" edition for readers who may choose to make a donation to any cause or charity. In April 2007, ''

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'' premiered "Saved By the Sun", a documentary about the unlimited potential of

solar energy Solar energy is the radiant energy from the Sun's sunlight, light and heat, which can be harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating) and solar architecture. It is a ...

in an age of

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, co-written and produced by Schwartz. Schwartz is a former editor at

BusinessWeek ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'' (and before that ''Business Week'' and ''The Business Week''), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year. The magazine debuted in New York City in Septembe ...

and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

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. In 2008, he served as a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize jury at the

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

. From 2011 to 2019, Schwartz was Director of Storytelling at Innosight, where he co-authored a study on the world's most transformative companies. From 2020 to 2023, he served as a team member and storyteller fo
Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021). His feature in ''

WIRED Wired may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''Wired'' (Jeff Beck album), 1976 * ''Wired'' (Hugh Cornwell album), 1993 * ''Wired'' (Mallory Knox album), 2017 * "Wired", a song by Prism from their album '' Beat Street'' * "Wired ...

'' about space junk was selected for the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing series. Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Science from Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y.

Books

* ''Webonomics'' (

Broadway Books Broadway Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.. It released its first list in Fall 1996. Broadway was founded in 1995 as a unit of Bantam Doubleday Dell, a unit of Bertelsmann. Bertelsmann acquire ...

, 1997) * * ''The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television'' (

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...

, 2002) * ''Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives World Class Inventors'' ( Harvard Business Press, 2004) * ''Finding Oz'' (

Houghton Mifflin The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as ...

Harcourt, 2009) * ''Revolver: a novel'' ( Concord Free Press, 2021)

References

External links

Author's Website
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of ''The Last Lone Inventor''
Review in Los Angeles Times of "Finding Oz"Nova: Saved By the Sun
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz, Evan Living people American non-fiction writers American film producers Year of birth missing (living people)