Gerald Jonas is the author of six nonfiction books, including "Dancing," (Harry N. Abrams, a companion book to an eight-part WNET/PBS television series about "dance around the world," for which he also served as consultant and script writer); "The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science" (W.W. Norton), and "Stuttering: The Disorder of Many Theories" (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux). He has written over 100 audiotours for leading museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Washington's National Gallery of Art. As a New Yorker staff writer for 30 years, he wrote major articles on subjects ranging from computers, basketball and science fiction to biofeedback, psychology, aging and the brain. As the science fiction critic for the New York Times, he selected and reviewed nearly 1000 works of science fiction and science. He also wrote on theater and the arts for the Times, and produced obituaries on leading scientists and science-fiction writers, including Jacques Cousteau, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. His poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Grand Street, and Loaded Bicycle (online), among other periodicals. He recently finished his first novel, "RiveR: A Grandmat in Three Landings."