Edmund Blair Bolles

Edmund Blair Bolles (born 1942) is an American humanist and science writer. His work often explores the intersection of science and culture, including books on geology, physics, memory, language and perception.

Early life and education Bolles grew up in Washington, D.C., Paris, and Toledo, Ohio. He earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He served two years in Tanzania as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching science, mathematics and agriculture, and has lived in Washington State, Los Angeles and New York. He is also listed by the Peace Corps among its notable volunteers in Arts & Literature.

Career Bolles has worked for decades as a freelance writer with a special interest in the meeting point between science and human imagination. His books have addressed subjects ranging from the discovery of the Ice Age to the intellectual debates surrounding quantum theory, and from memory and perception to language development and adoption.

Reception Einstein Defiant received positive trade reviews; Publishers Weekly called it "highly recommended for science buffs as well as readers of biography and cultural history" (Feb. 23, 2004), and Library Journal described it as "colorful, readable, and well explains Einstein’s reservations about quantum mechanics" (Mar. 1, 2004). His father was, among other jobs, a foreign correspondent for The Washington Star and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio. His mother was a society reporter for The Washington Star. His siblings include film sound editor/film librarian Harry Peck Bolles, Charles DeVallon Dugas Bolles, and a sister, Zoe.