John Brockman

John Brockman fascinates me less as an author than as a connector. By founding the Edge Foundation, he built a salon where scientists and thinkers could collide ideas in public, and that kind of curatorial talent is genuinely rare. I admire people who shape discourse from behind the scenes rather than at the podium. You do not have to be the genius yourself if you can convene the geniuses. His legacy, complicated associations aside, is having kept big intellectual questions in open circulation, and I respect the architecture of that work.

Name (English)

John Brockman

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ブロックマン (文学エージェント)

Reading

じょん・ぶろっくまん (文学えーじぇんと)

Born

February 16, 1941 (age 85)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

literary agent / writer

• Official sitehttps://brockman.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brockman%20(literary%20agent)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%20(%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1314332

Tags

• Massachusetts
• literary agent
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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