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December 2014
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January 2013
"Chuck Yeager Goes Supersonic" becomes available on Amazon.com.
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March 2013
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April 2013
Kirkus Reviews: "engages young readers' imaginations, respects their intelligence and takes them along on an exciting, real-life adventure."
Clarion Reviews: "beautiful and vivid"
About Us
Alan Biermann with Yaejin Lim in Griffith Park overlooking Hollywood, California
(photo by Alexey Gorshkov)
Alan Biermann's father was in the airplane propeller business and he was around airplanes a lot in his early years. When he was in high school and college, he spent most summers working in the propeller factory assembling propellers for single and twin engine airplanes. He became a sailplane pilot in college and eventually flew many flights at El Mirage dry lake bed on the Mojave Desert near where Captain Yeager (now General Yeager) flew many of his record breaking flights. The story of the breaking of the sound barrier has been one of his favorites for his whole life and he is now enjoying getting it out to the young people of the world.
He was a professor of computer science at Duke University for most of his career. His research area was artificial intelligence and he received grants and published many papers in this field. He also wrote a general textbook in computer science entitled Great Ideas in Computer Science which was published by The MIT Press in 1990, 1997, and a third edition, with coauthor, Dietolf Ramm, in 2002. Professor Biermann is a Fellow in the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and in the Association for Computing Machinery and a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yaejin Lim is a painter, illustrator, and art educator. She studied painting, drawing, and illustration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rhode Island School of Design and art education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Creating children's books is a perfect way for her to employ her artistic talent and passion for art education. Yaejin lives in Rockville, Maryland, with her husband, Alexey Gorshkov. Her website is www.limyaejin.com.
Julia Gignoux
Julia Gignoux is a book designer and owner of Freedom Hill Design and Book Production in Cavendish, Vermont. Her 20 plus years in publishing has led to the successful completion of more than 500 books for a diverse array of publishers, organizations, and individuals. As a member of TEXTile Partners, she works collaboratively with writer Susie Wilde and textile artist Peg Gignoux, offering book arts residences to schools, libraries, and other community organizations. In 2012, TEXTile Partners published Passage and It's Making: A Guide to Picture Book Publication. Her work can be viewed at www.freedomhilldesign.com.
JP Cafaro was an honor student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Computer Science at Duke when he created the Fly program included on this web site.
Alan with second graders (photo by Karoline Mathewson)