Draft:Benjamin Crowell (author)

Benjamin Crowell is a free physics and mathematics textbook author, a science fiction writer, and a free and open source software author and free content advocate. Crowell has authored several textbooks that are in use in colleges and preparatory schools across the United States. He has authored several short stories and novels that are published in Sci-Fi periodicals, some with international translations, and also made freely available. His open source software contributions span classical literature, UNIX/Linux utilities, and supporting material for his free textbooks. Crowell graduated with an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in physics from Yale University and retired as Professor after a career teaching physics and mathematics at Fullerton College.