Leslie's Latest Blogs
Nov.23.2010 - 11:52 am
Not long ago I found my 12-year-old daughter sitting on the floor of our living room, crying quietly. Fanned out on either side of her were the seven 'Harry Potter' books,...
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Nov.15.2010 - 3:30 pm
My son was seven, my daughter five, when I began reading the Harry Potter books to them. At that point, four books had been published, and it probably took us two years to read...
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Nov.15.2010 - 1:53 pm
When the manuscript of The Man behind the Microchip was finished, I sent it to two men who had agreed to read it with an eye to possibly writing a blurb for the back of the book...
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Published by PC Magazine
Robert Noyce Everyone knows who Bill Gates is, but do you know Robert Noyce? Probably not. More than anyone else, Noyce pioneered the hardware side of the personal computing...
About Leslie
I have contributed a column on innovation in business to the Sunday Business section of the New York Times, and my book, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley>, is a biography of one of the inventors of the...
Causes Leslie Berlin Supports
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Leslie’s Favorite Books
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the...