Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Retired Yale University Research Scientist. Author of 15 books and 157 articles in the research literature. My books include a novel, The HOA Murders, and an autobiography, Hillbilly to Harvard to Yale, and 4 editions of a textbook, Injury Epidemiology.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Make America Great Again: Myths, Lies, and Facts was inspired by the the “alternative facts”, a polite word for lies, perpetrated by the Trump Administration. They often reject scientifically determined facts in favor of their own narrative of reality. Trump tweets while America burns and drowns.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jared Diamond (2005) Collapse. New York: Penguin Books, J.S. Hacker and P. Pierson (2016) American Amnesia, New York: Simon and Schuster, J. Hansen (2009) Storms of My Grandchildren. New York: Bloomsbury Press, A.J. Hoffman (2015) How Culture Shapes The Climate Change Debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. M. Lewis (2018) The Fifth Risk. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., J. Mayer (2016) Dark Money. New York: Doubleday among many others.
What are you working on now?
Essays to be submitted to newspapers and magazines.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am not good at promotion but I hope Awesome Gang is it.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t quit your day job.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
What are you reading now?
The Empire and the Five Kings by Bernard Henri Levy
What’s next for you as a writer?
Thinking up a useful project.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
That is too difficult to contemplate.
Author Websites and Profiles
Leon Robertson Website
Leon Robertson Amazon Profile