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BiographyBorn June 23, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York. Jim Livingston studied engineering physics at Cornell University, and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1956. After retiring from General Electric after a lengthy career as a research physicist, he taught for 20 years in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT before retiring again. Although a physicist by profession, he has long had a strong interest in American history, and today much of his time is focused on writing (and reading) in history and in science. In addition to an engineering text and other technical writing, Livingston is author of a popular-science book, Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets, a town history, Glenville:Past and Present, and several articles on New York State history. He married Sherry H. Penney in 1985, and they have collaborated on several writing projects in American history, including three publications based on Martha Coffin Wright, an early feminist and abolitionist: “Expectant at Seneca Falls,” (New York History, Winter 2003); “Hints for Wives-and Husbands” (Journal of Women’s History, Summer 2003); and “How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Differences Over the Issue of Slavery?” http://womhist.binghamton.edu/mcw/doclist.htm. Their biography, A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women’s Rights, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in July 2004. His latest book, Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York, will be published in summer 2010 by SUNY Press. |
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