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In the tradition of The Swerve and Galileo's Daughter, Piero's Light reveals how art, religion and science came together at the dawn of the modern world in the paintings of one remarkable artist
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Larry Witham is an author, editor, journalist, and artist. His most recent project is a novel, Gallery Pieces: An Art Mystery (Jan. 2016) . Witham has written fifteen other books, and was a finalist in the 2015 Pen Literary Awards for biography. He began his writing career as a daily newspaper reporter in Washington D.C., a job he held for twenty-one years. Since 2003, he has written and edited books full-time. Witham has received several national awards for his newspaper work and books, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for a series he co-wrote on the clergy in America. He was Project Editor for the ten-volume Templeton Press science-and-religion series, and was editor of Science and Spirit magazine in 2007. A painter by avocation, Witham is currently exploring new art and writing projects. He has a bachelors degree in painting from San Jose State University (1974) . Witham lives with his wife in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C.
