Nate Pedersen
Nate Pedersen is a writer in Mankato, Minnesota. His most recent book is Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them. His website is natepedersen.com.
Early writing developed independently at four spots around the ancient world: Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, and Mesoamerica.
Check out Robert Darnton's engaging piece on pre-cursors to blogs over at the New York Review of Books' Blog.
For any collectors of Booker Prize winners out there, you will soon have a new gap to fill in your collection.
