Laurence Bergreen

Laurence Bergreen (born February 4, 1950, in New York City) is an American popular historian biographer known for his narrative accounts of exploration, science, and cultural history. His works, which include biographies of Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, and Louis Armstrong, as well as studies of NASA’s Mars missions, have been widely read and translated into multiple languages. While praised for their accessibility and storytelling, some of his work has been criticized for lacking scholarly rigor and historical accuracy. Provided by Wikipedia