Ceridwen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Niven_-_Utopiales_2010_cropped.jpg
Larry Niven
b. 1938·American
Larry Niven is an American science fiction author born on April 30, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, who studied mathematics at Washburn University before turning to writing full-time. He is best known for his Ringworld series, beginning with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel Ringworld (1970), which introduced a vast artificial habitat orbiting a star and became a landmark of hard science fiction. Niven's work is celebrated for its rigorous grounding in theoretical physics and its inventive world-building across dozens of novels and short story collections.
