Larry and his wife, Betsy
Larry Kilham is from the third generation of a family of successful inventors and is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received a master's degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado. He holds three patents in chemical process instrumentation and was awarded the IR 100 award for inventing one of the 100 most significant technical products in 1986. Larry has published numerous technical articles which have appeared in trade journals and professional meetings.
Larry has been in sales, engineering and management positions in high tech companies since 1965. Much of his work was in Asia, Europe, the Mideast, and Latin America. He is fluent in Spanish and wrote a bilingual book about his adventures industrializing Nicaragua called Shades of Truth/Los matices de la verdad.
In 2007 Larry retired from industry and became a full-time writer. He recalled that he had been the Features Editor of a college newspaper and decided to start writing again. His first two books are about invention, creativity, and building a high-tech business. These are Great Idea to a Great Company: Making Inventions Pay and Megaminds: Creativity and Invention.
Starting in 2012 under the tutelage of Robert Mayer, Larry wrote three novels exploring artificial intelligence: Love Byte, A Viral Affair, and Saving Juno all available together as The Juno Trilogy. He also wrote a novel about virtual reality technology as a weapon the drug wars, Free Will Odyssey.
In 2014-2016, Larry wrote two acclaimed non-fiction books about the problems and opportunities of robots and electronic media: The Winter of the Genomes and The Digital Rabbit Hole.
His most recent projects in 2018-2020 have been two 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. The other memoir is Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor about Larry’s maternal grandfather and his enterprises in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Most recently, Larry has been writing poetry and has published two collections: The Magic of Nature: Poetic Explorations and Dirt Road Poems.
Larry Kilham and his wife Betsy have enjoyed many world travels and live in his native Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Larry has been in sales, engineering and management positions in high tech companies since 1965. Much of his work was in Asia, Europe, the Mideast, and Latin America. He is fluent in Spanish and wrote a bilingual book about his adventures industrializing Nicaragua called Shades of Truth/Los matices de la verdad.
In 2007 Larry retired from industry and became a full-time writer. He recalled that he had been the Features Editor of a college newspaper and decided to start writing again. His first two books are about invention, creativity, and building a high-tech business. These are Great Idea to a Great Company: Making Inventions Pay and Megaminds: Creativity and Invention.
Starting in 2012 under the tutelage of Robert Mayer, Larry wrote three novels exploring artificial intelligence: Love Byte, A Viral Affair, and Saving Juno all available together as The Juno Trilogy. He also wrote a novel about virtual reality technology as a weapon the drug wars, Free Will Odyssey.
In 2014-2016, Larry wrote two acclaimed non-fiction books about the problems and opportunities of robots and electronic media: The Winter of the Genomes and The Digital Rabbit Hole.
His most recent projects in 2018-2020 have been two 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. The other memoir is Destiny Strikes Twice: James L. Breese Aviator and Inventor about Larry’s maternal grandfather and his enterprises in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Most recently, Larry has been writing poetry and has published two collections: The Magic of Nature: Poetic Explorations and Dirt Road Poems.
Larry Kilham and his wife Betsy have enjoyed many world travels and live in his native Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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