Occupation Novelist Role Author | Name Gene Brewer Genre Science fiction Movies K-PAX | |
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Books K‑PAX, On a beam of light, K‑Pax Omnibus, K‑Pax III, K‑PAX IV: A New Visitor fro Similar People Iain Softley, Charles Leavitt, Alfre Woodard, Kevin Spacey | ||
K-PAX, by Gene Brewer (MPL Book Trailer #259)
Gene Brewer (born Eugene N. Brewer, 4 July 1937) is an American writer, the author of the K-PAX series of novels, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: K-PAX (1995), On a Beam of Light (2001), K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot (2002), K-PAX IV (2007) and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a Universal Pictures film in 2001; it stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
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Biography
Brewer was born at in Muncie, Indiana.
He was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division before becoming a novelist.
Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont, with his wife. He is a vegan.