Richard A. Larson

A native of America’s heartland, Richard A. Larson is a chemistry researcher and teacher who has spent many years at a large public institution of higher education in the Midwestern United States. He has edited or authored several technical books in the field of organic and environmental chemistry. His first novel, Degrees of Freedom, is an example of “science-in fiction,” an attempt to show that scientists are not all mad or monastic, but people with largely ordinary lives full of drama and sorrow, but driven by curiosity about the world and how it works.