Also, I got an email because at one point I had tweeted about Shannon: Dear Sam, I hope this note finds you well. I noticed that you had tweeted in the past a

Also, I got an email because at one point I had tweeted about Shannon: Dear Sam, I hope this note finds you well. I noticed that you had tweeted in the past about James Gleick's book "The Information." As it happens, that book inspired a book I've just finished: the first-ever full length biography of the late Bell Labs engineer Claude Shannon. The book was recently published by Simon & Schuster. I figured I would reach out, given your interest in Bell Labs. We were fortunate to have worked with Alice Mayhew, the editor behind A Beautiful Mind, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, and other books in that genre. I think you'll enjoy the book and hope you get a chance to check it out! Jimmy -- -- My new book, A Mind At Play (Simon & Schuster), is available now. It's the story of Claude Shannon, one of the founders of the information revolution—and one of the reasons we can exchange these emails.