Biographie de Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson issueth from a Clan of yeomen, itinerant Parsons, ingeniers, and Natural Philosophers that hath long dwelt in the bucolick marches and rural Shires of his native Land, and trod the Corridors of her Varsities. At a young age, finding himself in a pretty Humour for the writing of Romances, and discourses of Natural Philosophy and the Technologick Arts, He took up the Pen, and hath not since laid it down.