Thomas Edison

Inventor and founder of the Menlo Park laboratory and Edison General Electric.

8 biographies about them

Biographies about them 8

The scholarly life and the popular lives diverge sharply on how much Edison invented himself.

Paul Israel · 1998 · By the editor of the Edison Papers; the scholarly standard.

Robert Conot · 1979 · First biography to work the Edison papers; unsparing on the finances.

Neil Baldwin · 1995 · Cultural biography; strong on Edison as manufactured public figure.

Randall E. Stross · 2007 · Edison as the first manufactured celebrity.

Ernest Freeberg · 2013 · What electric light did to American life; the market Edison created.

Edmund Morris · 2019 · Told in reverse chronological order; divisive but widely read.

Jill Jonnes · 2003 · The current war: Edison against Westinghouse and Tesla.

Leonard DeGraaf · 2013 · By the Edison archivist; illustrated, and best on the laboratory as business.