Todd NeffTodd Neff is a writer based in Denver, Colorado. His latest book, A Beard Cut Short, is a biography with a good deal of investigative reporting about John Rubadeau, hisformer University of Michigan writing professor. His prior book, The Laser That's hanging the World, tells the story of the inventors and innovators who saw, and ultimately realized, the potential of lidar to help solve a dizzying array of problems -- perhaps most prominently, vehicle autonomy. His first book, From Jars to the Stars, shows how Ball Aerospace came to be and then managed to blast a sizable crater in the comet 9P/Tempel 1. It won the Colorado Book Award for History. He covered science and the environment for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado, and taught narrative nonfiction at the University of Colorado, where he was a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at CU. He graduated from the University of Michigan and with a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Read More Read Less