John Brockman (literary agent), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Brockman (literary agent)

American literary agent

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1941

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: writer, literary agent

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

John Brockman (born February 16, 1941) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature.
He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields.
Referencing C.P.
Snow's "two cultures", he introduced the "third culture" consisting of "those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are." He led a scientific salon for 20 years, asking a question to a host of renowned scientists every year and publishing their answers in book form, which he decided to symbolically close down in 2018.He is an editor of Edge.org.