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  • I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

    "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 1, 2010.