David Macaulay is an acclaimed author and illustrator of books on architecture, history and design. Recently awarded a MacArthur “genius” fellowship for his work, he published his landmark, The Way Things Work: From Levers to Lasers, Cars to Computers—A Visual Guide to the World of Machines, in 1988. This October, he will release The Way We Work—a unique visual account of the marvelous machine that is the human body. Throughout his career, he has turned his eye and pen on the stories of great buildings—Castle, Cathedral, and Mosque, among them; highs (and some lows) of design in works like Rome Antics and Great Moments in Architecture, and even a definitive treatment of the future of archaeology in Motel of the Mysteries. Macaulay has also hosted ten nationally broadcast documentaries based on his writing. He lives with his family in Vermont.
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