Larry Kilham is a Santa Fe–based author, inventor, and former high-tech entrepreneur whose work spans science fiction, memoir, poetry, and nonfiction. His writing often explores themes of creativity, artificial intelligence, nature, and personal discovery.
Notable Works:
Notable Works:
- The Perfectionist: Peter Kilham and the Birds — a memoir about his father, an inventor and nature enthusiast
- Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor — a biography about a pioneering aviator (crew of the first transatlantic flight) and prosperous inventor
- MegaMinds: Creativity and Invention — explores how people think creatively and motivates the reader to be creative and inventive
- The Digital Rabbit Hole — are we captive in the digital universe and what to do about it
- Curiosity & Hope — a personal biography chronicling his global adventures and entrepreneurial journey
- Dirt Road Poems — a recent poetry collection reflecting on nature, technology, and resilience
- Kilham earned degrees in engineering and management from the University of Colorado and MIT
- He founded and sold two high-tech companies and worked internationally for over two decades
- His literary influences include Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Pueblo Indian poetry
Recently Published
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Larry Kilham’s incredible life story takes you through many companies and adventures starting from growing up on a farm with electronics as a hobby. He stumbled into the transistor by experimentation and his electronics skills were important to stimulating his engineering education. Larry entered industry, and he shares his adventures in industrializing Saudi Arabia, multimedia publishing, tracking Russian submarines, planning new towns, selling machinery in Latin America, and founding two high-tech companies.
His boyhood curiosity in electronics began a process of discovery and education that led to a remarkable and happy life. Hopefully the new generations may gain some insights from his experience, particularly if they are oriented towards new discovery, technology, and ecology. There is plenty of interest here for parents and educators. |
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"James L. Breese (1885-1959) was the flight engineer on the first airplane to make it across the Atlantic, in 1919. Ten years later, Breese moved to Santa Fe, where, according to a biography written by his grandson, 'he built an oil burner business with a portfolio of over 130 patents.'... Kilham has a charming narrative voice, but he lets Breese tell the story of the trans-Atlantic flight through diary entries from those fateful days, as well as letters from other family members, to supplement parts of his grandfather's story."
- The Santa Fe New Mexican |
Acclaimed Memoir
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This is the story about Peter Kilham who constantly sought perfection to bring beauty and function to the public. His son, Larry, reveals their conversations over the years about life and creativity. Sherry Rand, a friend of the family, writes:
"On a quiet Saturday evening I just read the last words of your beautiful book about your father. I am so touched by this book and so thankful you wrote it. I had the incredible good fortune of spending the better part of the day with your father and Dorothy in the spring of 1984 at their home in Foster, It was one of the most memorable days of my life and your book brought it back to life so clearly...Thank you so much for putting together this memoir of your father, a most remarkable man, who along with his wonderful wife, has given us, and nature, so much!" |
