Family: Born August 7, 1933, in Shreveport, LA; son of P. Eugene (a radio station owner) and R. Ruth (Lewis) Pournelle; married Roberta Jane Isdell (a reading specialist), July 18, 1959; children: Alexander, Francis Russell, Phillip, Richard Stefan. Education: Attended University of Iowa, 1953-54; University of Washington, B.S., 1955, M.S., 1957, Ph.D. Politics: Republican. Religion: "Anglo-Catholic." Avocational Interests: Sailing, backpacking, computers, war gaming. Memberships: Science Fiction Writers of America (president, 1973-74), Mystery Writers of America, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Operations Research Society of America (fellow), American Association for the Advancement of Science (fellow), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fellow), American Rocket Society, Institute for Strategic Studies, American Security Council, University Professors for Academic Order (director, 1971), Society for Creative Anachronism, Military and Hospitaler Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem (officer). Addresses: Home: 12190 1/2 Ventura Blvd., Box 372, Studio City, CA 91604. Agent: Eleanor Wood, Spectrum Agency, 111 Eighth Ave., Rm. 1501, New York, NY 10011.

SCIENCE FICTION

• A Spaceship for the King, DAW, 1972, revised and expanded version published as King David's Spaceship, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1980.
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (novelization of screenplay), Award, 1974.
• (With Larry Niven) The Mote in God's Eye, Simon & Schuster, 1974.
• Birth of Fire, Laser (Toronto, Canada), 1976, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1978.
• (With Larry Niven) Inferno, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1976.
• West of Honor, Laser, 1976, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1978.
• The Mercenary, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1977.
• (With Larry Niven) Lucifer's Hammer, Playboy Press, 1977.
• High Justice (short stories), Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1977.
• Exiles to Glory, Ace Books, 1978.
• Janissaries, Ace Books, 1979.
• (With Larry Niven) Oath of Fealty, Phantasia Press, 1981.
• (With Roland Green) Janissaries: Clan and Crown, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1982.
• (With Larry Niven) Footfall, Ballantine, 1985.
• (With Roland Green) Janissaries III: Storms of Victory, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1987.
• (With Larry Niven and Steven Barnes) The Legacy of Heorot, Simon & Schuster, 1987.
• (With Larry Niven, Dean Ing, and S. M. Stirling) Man-Kzin Wars II, Baen (New York, NY), 1989.
• (With John F. Carr) The Crash of Empire, Baen Pub. Enterprises (New York, NY), 1989.
• Prince of Mercenaries, Baen (New York, NY), 1989.
• Falkenberg's Legion, Baen (New York, NY), 1990.
• (With S. M. Stirling) The Children's Hour, Baen (New York, NY), 1991.
• (With S. M. Stirling) Go Tell the Spartans, Baen (New York, NY), 1991.
• (With Larry Niven and Michael Flynn) Fallen Angels, Baen (New York, NY), 1991.
• (With Larry Niven) The Gripping Hand, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1993.
• (With S. M. Stirling) Prince of Sparta: A Novel of Falkenberg's Legion, Baen (New York, NY), 1993.
• (With Larry Niven and Steven Barnes) Beowulf's Children (The Dragons of Heorot), TOR (New York, NY) 1995.
• (With Charles Sheffield) Higher Education: A Jupiter Novel, TOR (New York, NY), 1996.
• Starswarm, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.
• (With Larry Niven) Lucifer's Hammer, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1998.
• (With Larry Niven) The Burning City, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 2000.

Also author of Man-Kzin Wars III. EDITOR

• 20/20 Vision, Avon, 1974.
• (And contributor) Black Holes, Fawcett, 1979.
• (With John F. Carr, and contributor) The Endless Frontier, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1979.
• (With John F. Carr) The Survival of Freedom, Fawcett, 1981.
• (With John F. Carr) The Endless Frontier 2, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1981.
• (With John F. Carr) Nebula Award Stories 16, Holt, 1982.
• (With John F. Carr, and contributor) There Will Be War, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1983.
• (With John F. Carr, and contributor) There Will Be War: Men of War, Volume II, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1984.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Blood and Iron, Volume III, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1985.
• (With John F. Carr) Imperial Stars: Stars at War, Baen (New York, NY), 1985.
• (With John F. Carr) Silicon Brains, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1985.
• (With John F. Carr) Science Fiction Yearbook 1984, Baen (New York, NY), 1985.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Day of the Tyrant, Volume IV, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1985.
• (With Jim Baen and John F. Carr) Far Frontiers 1-7, seven volumes, Baen (New York, NY), 1985-86.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Warrior!, Volume V, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1986.
• (With John F. Carr) Republic and Empire: Imperial Stars, Volume II, Baen (New York, NY), 1987.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Guns of Darkness, Volume VI, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1987.
• (With John F. Carr) Warworld, four volumes, Baen (New York, NY), 1988-94.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Call to Battle, Volume VII, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1988.
• (With John F. Carr) There Will Be War: Armageddon, Volume VIII, Tor Books (New York, NY), 1989.

• (With Stefan T. Possony) The Strategy of Technology: Winning the Decisive War, Dunellen, 1970.
• That Buck Rogers Stuff, edited by Gavin Claypool, Extequer, 1977.
• (With R. Gagliardi) The Mathematics of the Energy Crisis, Intergalactic Publishing, 1978.
• A Step Farther Out (essays), W. H. Allen, 1980, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1983.
• (With Dean Ing) Mutual Assured Survival: A Space-Age Solution to Nuclear Annihilation, Baen (New York, NY), 1984.
• The User's Guide to Small Computers, Baen (New York, NY), 1985.
• Adventures in Microland, Baen (New York, NY), 1985.
• Pournelle's PC Communications Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity with a Modem, Microsoft Press (Redmond, WA), 1992.

• (Under pseudonym Wade Curtis) Red Heroin (novel), Berkley Publishing, 1969, reprinted under name Jerry Pournelle, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1985.
• (Under pseudonym Wade Curtis) Red Dragon (novel), Berkley Publishing, 1971, reprinted under name Jerry Pournelle, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1985.

Also author of Human Temperature Tolerance in Astronautic Environments, 1959, Stability and National Security, 1968, Congress Debates Viet Nam, 1971, and The Right to Read, 1971. Contributor of non-fiction articles to Analog, Galaxy, Info World, and American Legion. Author of column "Notes from Chaos Manor," Byte; science columnist, Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine; computer columnist, Popular Computing. Contributor to The Craft of Science Fiction, edited by Reginald Bretnor, Harper, 1976.