Sir John Eccles
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Nobel Laureate Sir John Eccles and Lady Helena at lunch with Karl and Katherine: Locarno, Switzerland, 1992 Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher. He won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. […]
Eugene Sokolov
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Karl with Russian neuroscientist Eugene (Yevgeny Nikolaevich) Sokolov: Budapest, 1991 Eugene Sokolov was recognized by the International Organization of Psychophysiology as one of five most acclaimed neuroscientists of the twentieth century. Sokolov used mathematics to examine the neural mechanism of consciousness and is considered a great pioneer in the […]
Basil Hiley
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Basil Hiley: Virginia, 1993 Basil Hiley is a mathematical quantum physicist and was co-author with David Böhm of The Undivided Universe, in which they lay out the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics. Basil Hiley is a Emeritus Professor of Physics at Birkbeck, University of London. Most recently, Karl’s work with […]
David Böhm
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Karl with Saral and David Böhm: Prague, June 1992 David Böhm was a eminent theoretical physicist who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. David Böhm co-wrote The Undivided Universe with Basil Hiley, in which they lay out the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics […]
Karl receives the first Havel Prize
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Karl receives the first Dagmar and Václav Havel Prize Karl with Mme Dagmar Havelova during the Havel Prize award ceremony: Prague, 2000 Karl with Václav Havel during the Havel Prize award ceremony: Prague, 2000 Karl Pribram was honored to receive the first Dagmar and Václav Havel Prize, which honors […]
Rick West
Back to Karl and Friends Gallery Rick West and Mary Beth at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: Washington DC, August 2005 Rick West was the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and is the president of the Autry Museum of the American West.
The Maltese Artist
The noted Maltese artist Joseph Barbara was commissioned by a British client, more than 30 years ago, to create a painting inspired by themes from The Eight. Subsequently he has created other works portraying my books, which are great fun and highly symbolic. Recently, during Carnivale, I visited Malta while doing research for my new […]
KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Lunar Society Newsletter June 10, 2020
KATHERINE NEVILLE’SLunar Society NewsletterJune 10, 2020 The Lunaticks As a former technological person myself, who’d participated in the early commercial phase of the computer revolution, I had long been fascinated by its predecessors: that handful of scientific entrepreneurs who, inspired by the Enlightenment and living though the American and French revolutions, had then gone on, […]
WUSA9 Great Day Washington: Smithsonian Libraries (5:08min)
Great Day Washington video interview of Katherine Neville (5:08 min) Smithsonian Adopt-a-Book Katherine Neville & Richard Choi discuss the Smithsonian Adopt-a-Book Program.
KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Paean to PAN Newsletter (Don’t Pan-ic!) May 15, 2020
KATHERINE NEVILLE’SPaean to PAN Newsletter (Don’t Pan-ic!)May 15, 2020 The Great God Pan In Greek myth, the “Great God” Pan–whose name means “All”–was one of the most ancient gods, perhaps the most ancient, existing since pre-Greek pagan times. Pan is a wild, goat-legged nature boy, born in the craggy mountains of Arcadia, in central Greece. […]
BookTrib: Smithsonian Libraries (33:12min)
BookTrib video interview with Katherine Neville (33:12 min)“Interview with Bestselling Author Katherine Neville”April 4, 2016 Smithsonian Libraries: Bestselling Author Katherine Neville Talks Hidden Wonders and Adopt-a-Book Program Katherine Neville talks about her favorite passion – libraries! Katherine Neville says, “Few people know that they have the largest museum library system in the world – all of […]
Publishers Weekly: Eight
Publishers Weekly review of The EightNovember 4, 1988
People: Critics’ Choice
People Magazine selected The Eight as a “Critics’ Choice”May 1989
El Pais
El Pais article about The Eight“Los libreros eligen sus obras literarias favoritas”June 11, 1999 In a national readers’ poll by the noted Spanish journal El Pais, The Eight was voted one of the top ten books of all time.
Bookbits (6:35min)
Bookbits audio interview of Katherine Neville about The Fire (6:35 min)December 19, 2008 Author Interview: Katherine Neville Chess is a realm author Katherine Neville has explored before. But she returns to it for her new thriller The Fire. Video – Audio only (6:35 min)
KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Cherry Blossom Newsletter March 20, 2020
Katherine in Esalen garden, Big Sur KATHERINE NEVILLE’SCherry Blossom NewsletterMarch 20, 2020 Early Cherry Blossoms In the opening scene of my novel, The Eight, the cherry blossoms bloom early: “Some said it was a good omen that they had bloomed so soon, a symbol of rebirth after the long and brutal winter. But then the cold rains had […]
Random House: Katherine on The Fire (series 2-5min)
Katherine answers Readers’ top five questions about The Fire in a series of short audio clips. Katherine answers: “Why did It take me 20 years to write the sequel to The 8?” Audio (2:39 min) Katherine discusses: “What role does chess play in my books?” Audio (2:42 min) Katherine talks about: “My characters and their […]
BookTrib: Two Clips (3:37min & 4:01min)
BookTrib video interview clips of Katherine Neville (3:37 min & 4:01 min) Katherine Neville On Her Body Of Work Video (3:37 min) Katherine Neville, Author Of The Eight Video (4:01 min)
Pirate Contest
The Pirate Contest has concluded! Congratulations and thanks for joining in on my Pirate Contest! All winners were selected by random darts. Whenever a dart has landed on a line between two people, each will receive a book. All of your books are just being mailed this week due to postal backup in our area. […]
Author Magazine (7:25min)
Author Magazine video interview of Katherine Neville (7:25 min)December 2008 Author presents: Katherine Neville Video (7:25 min)
National Book Festival (28:31min)
Katherine Neville speaking at the National Book Festival Video (28:31 min) National Book Festival Group photo at the breakfast before The National Book Festival Above is the group photo of all of us at the breakfast, just before the festival, that was hosted by The Washington Post. Among the friends and fellow Mystery-Thriller writers I […]
The Fire in Spain (3:24min)
Following the progress of Katherine Neville’s book tour through Spain for The Fire (El Fuego). Video (3:24 min)
Katherine Neville on her inspiration for The Eight (2:04min)
Open Road video of Katherine Neville discussing The Eight (2:04 min)“Katherine Neville, Author of The Eight“July 20, 2015 Katherine Neville, Author of The Eight Neville discusses what inspired her novel, The Eight. This video was filmed at the Chess Forum in Manhattan. Video (2:04 min)
The Eight Original PR Brochure With Music (3:28min)
Original promotional foldout brochure for The Eight with music by Vivaldi. Video (3:28 min)
“Authors on Editing” with Kris Spisak
Kris Spisak interview of Katherine Neville“Authors on Editing: Interview with Katherine Neville” Authors on Editing: Interview with Katherine Neville Many writers aspire to craft intrigue, to evoke a fascination in history and the world that we live in through page-turning plots and three-dimensional characters, but few make an impact as great as international bestseller Katherine […]
Katherine Neville: From The Eight to The Fire
Interviewed by Sandra Parshall Twenty years ago, Katherine Neville published The Eight, a novel with a mixture of history, adventure, mystery, and suspense that has proven remarkably enduring – since its initial publication, The Eighthas never been out of print. Now, at last, Katherine has published a sequel, The Fire, which went on sale yesterday. Her other novels, A […]
The Bookseller
The Bookseller “Book News” article about The Eight“Pieces of Eight for The Eight” December 1988
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (UK) book review of The EightAugust 1989
Publishing News
Publishing News book review of The Eight“Liz Thomson looks at what could become a 1989 cult classic”December 16, 1988
Daily News
The Daily News book review of The Eight“Mysticism murder and mystery” (Book of the Day)August 31, 1989
The Power of Water
I first got the idea of writing The Magic Circle while living in Idaho, where I’d moved in 1978 from Colorado to work with people from many different countries and cultures, all involved in energy research and nuclear safety. I was living in a tiny, furnished flat on the second floor of an old-fashioned building […]
The Norns of Nurnberg
The minute I first stepped off the train in 1989 at the jewellike town of Nurnberg, I realized that in all the books I’d already read about Nazi Germany in my research for The Magic Circle–everything from serious historical treatments to woo-woo occult fantasy–nobody had ever raised one question. Why did Adolf Hitler base his […]
Mount Ida Part Two: Visiting the Gods
The very first morning when we stopped at Troy, archaeologists were boarding up parts to begin further digging just outside the famous ruins. We learned a few days later from a newspaper headline that they’d just discovered unknown outer walls, revealing that Troy was seven times larger than originally believed. So despite what historians had […]
