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Evan I. Schwartz

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Evan I. Schwartz writes about history, innovation, tech, music, and media.

He is the author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named by Amazon Books as one of “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.”

His book Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin) is a narrative about the origins of a cultural icon, The Wizard of Oz.

His first book, Webonomics, was the #24 bestselling book on Amazon.com for the year 1997 (when only geeks bought stuff on the Internet), and his second book, Digital Darwinism, was a New York Times bestseller. Both are published by Broadway/Random House.

His 2021 book, REVOLVER: a novel, was issued as a free pape ...more

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	Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story 3.83 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television 4.21 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors 3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolver 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Digital Darwinism 3.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Remembering John Lennon: Read REVOLVER & Donate to an Anti-Violence Group

I wrote REVOLVER: a novel in tribute to the genius of John Lennon, lost today in 1980. Since then we've lost 1.5 million Americans to gun violence. The insanity must stop.

For a limited time, request a free paperback from Concord Free Press http://concordfreepress.com,
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Published on December 08, 2021 09:39 • Tags: 2021-novels, beatles, coming-of-age, debut-novel, gun-control, john-lennon, new-york-city, newlit, rock, yoko-ono

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Evan Schwartz said: " I'm thrilled to let you know that my debut novel REVOLVER is available in paperback starting today. And like all Concord Free Press books, it's FREE to readers in exchange for your generosity.

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“The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do - I think it is even what fiction is for.”
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