Alexander Alben

Alexander Alben is the author of a spy novel, "Our Man in Mongoa," published by Scribner's and "Analog Days: How Technology Rewrote our Future" from the Zeppo Press.

"Ludlum with laughs! The spy novel will never be the same," opined humorist Stan Freberg about Mongoa, which profiles the whacky career of a CIA analyst in the South Seas. Reviewers compared the book to the lighter works of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.

His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Seattle Times.

Alben teaches privacy and Internet law at the UCLA School of Law, where he writes frequently about the intersection of legal issues and new technologies.

"Eliezer's Train and Family Tales" represents Alben's first venture into family history and biography. The book was inspired by the stories told by Ruth Winokoor and Russ Alben, although it is highly fictionalized to bring the tales to life.