Gene Brewer

Gene Brewer is an American writer, the author of the K-PAX book series, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: K-PAX (novel), On a Beam of Light, K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot, K-PAX IV: A New Visitor From The [Constellation Lyra|K-PAX IV] K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a film in 2001, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.

Biography

Brewer was born in Muncie, Indiana.
He was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division, then became a novelist.
Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife.