Bradley Steffens

Bradley Steffens is a novelist, poet, and award-winning author of more than sixty nonfiction books for young adults. He is a two-time recipient of the San Diego Book Award for Best Young Adult Nonfiction: his book Giants won the 2005 award, and People in the News: J.K. Rowling received the 2007 prize. J.K. Rowling also garnered the Theodor S. Geisel Award for the best published book by a San Diego County author in 2007. His debut novel, The Prisoner of Al-Hakim, is based on the life of the medieval Islamic polymath Ibn al-Haytham and was published by Blue Dome Press in 2017. Physicist, author, and BBC broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili praised the novel as 'a gripping story based on real-life events that is fizzing with adventure and rich in accurate historical and scientific nuggets.' Steffens is also the author of First Scientist: Ibn Al-Haytham, a nonfiction account of the same figure.