TowriteTHELASTLONEINVENTOR,EvanI.SchwartzspenttwoyearsresearchingthelifestoriesofPhiloT.FarnsworthandDavidSarnoff.HeinterviewedsurvivingFarnsworthfamilymembers,includingFarnsworth's93-year-oldwidow,andhevisiteddocumentarchivesinsixstates.Asajournalist,Evanhasbeencoveringinformationtechnologyfor15years.HeisaformereditoratBusinessWeek,wherehecoveredsoftwareanddigitalmediaandwaspartofteamsthatproduced12coverstoriesandwonaNationalMagazineAwardandaComputerPressAward.Inrecentyears,hehaswrittenforTheNewYorkTimes,WIRED,andMIT'sTechnologyReview.Evan'sfirstbook,titledWEBONOMICS,publishedbyBroadwayBooks,adivisionofRandomHouse,hasrankedasAmazon.com's#1bestsellingbusinessbookandwaschosenasafinalistfortwomajorawards:TheGlobalBusinessBookAwardaswellastheComputerPressAward.Internationaleditionshavebeenpublishedineightcountries.Evan'ssecondbook,DIGITALDARWINISM,fromthesamepublisher,alsohit#1onAmazon'sbusinesslistshortlyafteritsrelease,inJune1999.NowinitstwelfthhardcoverandfirstpaperbackprintingintheU.S.,itisavailableintheU.K.,fromPenguin,andhasbeentranslatedintoeightotherlanguages.IttoowasnamedafinalistfortheComputerPressAwardforNon-FictionBookoftheYear.EvanholdsaB.S.incomputersciencefromUnionCollegeinSchenectady,NewYork,andliveswithhisfamilyinBrookline,Mass.