Gene Brewer

Who is Gene Brewer?

Gene Brewer is the author of the K-PAX series of novels, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX: K-PAX, On a Beam of Light, K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot, K-PAX IV and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books. The first book in the series was made into a Universal Pictures film in 2001; it stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.

The psychiatrist in his novels is named after him, being named Dr. Gene Brewer.

Brewer was educated at DePauw University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he studied DNA replication and cell division before becoming a novelist.

Brewer currently lives in New York City and Vermont, with his wife and their mixed-breed dog, Flower. He is a vegan.

⁕K-PAX: The Trilogy. New York: Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 0-7475-6695-X.

⁕En un Rayo de Luz Umbriel, ISBN 978-8-49561-847-4.

⁕Creating K-PAX, Or, Are You Sure You Want to Be a Writer? Xlibris, ISBN 1599264757. A memoir concerning the 2001 lawsuit over the film Man Facing Southeast.