author
David E. Fisher
b. 1932
A scientist-novelist who moved easily between laboratory thinking and big human stories, he wrote nonfiction and fiction with a clear curiosity about how the world works. His books range from science and history to technology, often blending research with a storyteller’s touch.
3 Audiobooks
The Birds and the Bees
by David E. Fisher
East in the Morning
by David E. Fisher
You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did
by David E. Fisher
About the author
Born in 1932, David E. Fisher was an American author, scientist, and teacher whose career crossed several fields. Reliable biographical sources describe him as a professor at the University of Miami, where he taught in areas including cosmochemistry, environmental sciences, and the impact of science on history. He also held a Ph.D. in nuclear physics.
As a writer, he published both nonfiction and fiction. Sources credited him with books such as A Race on the Edge of Time, Fire and Ice, and Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing, and noted that he collaborated with his son Marshall John Fisher on books including Tube, Strangers in the Night, and Mysteries of the Past.
An obituary published in 2023 reports that he died on June 28, 2023, at his home in East Orleans, Massachusetts, shortly after his ninety-first birthday. A suitable confirmed portrait image was not readily available from the pages I could verify.