Margaret Cheney

Selected Works

Science / Invention
Tesla - Man Out of Time
Life of the 20th century's most brilliant inventor/scientist. Margaret Cheney is the only American author to have been awarded the Tesla Gold Medal of the Tesla Institute, the Tesla Museum, and the Serbian Academy of Science - in recognition of her classic biography, Tesla - Man Out of Time.
Tesla - Master of Lightning
Years in the making, this definitive biography presents important new materials: archival documents and photographs from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, and excerpts from Tesla's Biography.
Music
Midnight at Mabel's - The Mabel Mercer Story
The fascinating story of the ultimate cabaret singer's rise to stardom.
Crime
Why: The Serial Killer in America
Edmund Kemper's madness reveals the elements that serial killers have in common.
Environmental
Meanwhile Farm
Margaret and her friend were ready for Meanwhile, but not quite prepared for it...

Tesla - Man Out of Time


'A VISIONARY GENIUS AS FERTILE AS ANY IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF SCIENCE.' (The Sunday Times, London.)

Flamboyant, eccentric, almost supernaturally gifted, Nikola Tesla was perhaps the greatest inventor the world has ever known.

It was Tesla who harnessed the alternating electrical current we use today.. .Tesla who actually invented the radio...Tesla who invented fluorescent lighting and the incredible bladeless turbine. He introduced us to the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science, which continue to create and transform the future.

Margaret Cheney received the International Tesla Gold Medal of the Serbian Academy of Science for this first modern biography of the inventor.

"A dramatic and poignant portrait..." Discover
"Fascinating..an irresistable subject." Kirkus Reviews