''The Man Who Invented the Computer'' is a 2010 historical biography by author

Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel ''A Thousand Acres'' (1991). Biography Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a su ...

about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital computing device.

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Official site''After Words'' interview with Smiley on ''The Man Who Invented the Computer'', December 27, 2010
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