W Patrick McCray

W Patrick McCray is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of four books, including the prizewinning The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future (2012) and Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (2020). He lives in Santa Barbara and Fort Collins.