Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).
Rhodes has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
Books in order of publication:
The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West. illus. Bill Greer. New York: Atheneum. (1970).
The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party. New York: Charterhouse. (1973).
The Ozarks. New York: Time-Life. (1974).
Holy Secrets. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. (1978).
Looking for America: A Writer’s Odyssey. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. (1979).
The Last Safari. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. (1980).
Sons of Earth. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. (1981).
The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1986).
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1989).
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1990).
The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West. Revised Edition. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. (1991).
Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1992).
(Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense about Energy. New York: Whittle Books. 1993).
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. 1st. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1995).
How to Write: Advice and Reflections. New York: W. Morrow. (1995).
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press). (1997).
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. New York: Simon & Schuster. (1997).
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (1999).
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood. Tenth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and epilogue. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. (2000).
Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph over Childhood Abuse. New York: W. Morrow. (1996).
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (2002).
John James Audubon: The Making of an American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.. (2004).
The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. (2007).
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (2007).
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (2010).
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. Doubleday. — (2011).
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made. Simon & Schuster. (2015).
Energy: A Human History. Simon & Schuster. (2018).
Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature. Doubleday. (2021).
Oak Lawn Library Friends 