
Larry Kilham
Larry is a truly remarkable writer, inventor, and person. His writing reflects his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and discovery and keeps the reader clamoring for more. You can pick up anything Larry has written, fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, or poetry and you will enjoy his writing.
Larry has traveled extensively overseas for over twenty years. He is from the third generation of a family of successful inventors. He worked for large international companies and started two high-tech ventures based on his inventions. Larry has written books about creativity and invention, artificial intelligence and digital media, travel overseas, and novels with an AI theme.
In 2007 Larry and became a full-time writer producing fifteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His most recent projects have been three family memoirs. The Perfectionist: Peter Kilham and the Birds is about his father Peter Kilham, a great inventor and naturalist largely told through the eyes of Larry growing up with his father. Another memoir is Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor about Larry’s maternal grandfather in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Larry recently published his own memoirs, Curiosity & Hope: Explorations for a Better World.
Larry has begun writing poetry which has received excellent reader reviews.
Larry is a truly remarkable writer, inventor, and person. His writing reflects his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and discovery and keeps the reader clamoring for more. You can pick up anything Larry has written, fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, or poetry and you will enjoy his writing.
Larry has traveled extensively overseas for over twenty years. He is from the third generation of a family of successful inventors. He worked for large international companies and started two high-tech ventures based on his inventions. Larry has written books about creativity and invention, artificial intelligence and digital media, travel overseas, and novels with an AI theme.
In 2007 Larry and became a full-time writer producing fifteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His most recent projects have been three family memoirs. The Perfectionist: Peter Kilham and the Birds is about his father Peter Kilham, a great inventor and naturalist largely told through the eyes of Larry growing up with his father. Another memoir is Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor about Larry’s maternal grandfather in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Larry recently published his own memoirs, Curiosity & Hope: Explorations for a Better World.
Larry has begun writing poetry which has received excellent reader reviews.
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Recently Published
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. |
"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
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!" |