Sherwin, a history professor and the author of one previous book, had agreed to write a full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer two decades earlier. Now he wondered if he would ever finish it.

Judy Oppenheimer, a writer and journalist best known for a biography exploring the brief, tortured life of author Shirley Jackson, whose short story “The Lottery” became one of the most widely ...

Is Oppenheimer: The Complete Screenplay different from the Oppenheimer biography? Yes, it certainly is. If you are looking to read the full 700+ page biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer that the ...

Christopher Nolan based his new film on a 2005 J. Robert Oppenheimer biography that won the Pulitzer Prize for literature. By Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service ...

Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Oppenheimer is widely considered the father of the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer’sending leaves its audience ... the mostly faithful adaptation is an impressive accomplishment for Nolan's movie. It also helps ensure a sense of realism up until the credits begin ...

Robert Oppenheimer,” a sweeping biography by Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird of the physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb. Riveted, Nolan immediately began adapting it into a screenplay.

Sherwin’s authoritative 2005 Oppenheimer biography. With the exception of one key narrative thread, everything onscreen is framed, per biopic convention, through its subject’s eyes.

co-author of the Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus, told The New York Times. "Students of American history will now be able to read the last chapter and see that what was done to ...

But the film, based on the monumental 2005 biography “American Prometheus,” actually revolves around a political mess in the Manhattan Project’s aftermath. Oppenheimer was the physicist in ...