Gene Brewer is the author of the K-PAX series of novels, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: K-PAX, On a Beam of Light, K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot, K-PAX IV and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a Universal Pictures film in 2001; it stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. Brewer was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin?Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division before becoming a novelist. Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont, with his wife. He is a vegan. K-PAX: The Trilogy. New York: Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 0-7475-6695-X. En un Rayo de Luz Umbriel, ISBN 978-8-49561-847-4. Creating K-PAX, Or, Are You Sure You Want to Be a Writer? Xlibris, ISBN 1599264757. A memoir concerning the 2001 lawsuit over the film Man Facing Southeast. Murder on Spruce Island: A Louis B. Davenport Mystery, Xlibris, ISBN 978-1-42570-290-8. [More at Wikipedia]

July 4th, 1937 in Muncie (Age 86)