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Samantha Hunt: 2009: Nikola Tesla<br> and <em>The Invention of Everything Else</em>

Samantha Hunt is the author of<em> </em><em>The Invention of Everything Else</em>, which has been shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. In this recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, Hunt discusses the subject of her historical novel, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, whose revolutionary inventions included alternating current and wireless technology. Briefly employed by Thomas Edison, Tesla routinely found himself on the wrong side of American capitalism and died impoverished and marginalized. In Hunt's passage, Tesla recounts his initial meeting with the financially-driven American inventor who sought to keep Tesla's inventions from reaching the public.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on April 24, 2009 12:56 PM