Neal Thompson

A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley (2013)

Curiously incurious, for a book called "A Curious Man."This is a biography of Robert L. Ripley, creator of "Believe It or Not"--the first in some fifty years. Thompson had access to a vast amount of archival material, both at Ripley Entertainment Industries and squirreled away at different librar...

Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spaceman (2004)