Alan Lightman Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: b. November 28, 1948
Birthday: November 28
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
source: Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007. 
topic: Fiction, Jay Gould, Essays
