num_pages: 480
description: Draws on new research to offer insight into the prestigious inventor's private life, as well as his passionate drive for new innovations, discussing the influence of his speech therapist father and deaf mother on his work, his tempestuous relationship with his wife, and his avoidance of fame and fortune. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
titlecomplete: Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
characters: Alexander Graham Bell
genres: History, American History, Technology, Biography Memoir, Engineering, Biography, Business, Science, Nonfiction, Canada
ratings_count: 777
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: Arcade Publishing