April 2, 2014 Alan Lightman is the highly acclaimed author of plays, poems, novels, and essays—and he’s working on a memoir about his Memphis childhood—so it is not surprising that the recent run of calamitous weather would inspire him to write a literary meditation on the relationship between human beings and the natural world.
The Insensible Power of Nature
Tornadoes and hurricanes inspire physicist Alan Lightman to consider our connection to the natural world