Thomas Lopez

Author, Thomas Lopez, Born in Los Altos, California is influenced by Steve Jobs and was an Engineering Scientist at Apple Inc. He has also published Poetry, Technical Manuals, Children's Books and Novels. Most of his publications are in the Historical, Fiction, Humor, Satire and Educational areas. His influences include the following: Jim Morrison and the Doors, Jack Kerouac, Modernists who experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make It New". The Modernist literary movement driven by conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. Quote novelist Virginia Woolf, who declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on or about December 1910." But Modernism was already stirring by 1899, with works such as Joseph Conrad's (1857-1924) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's (1873-1907) Absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared even earlier, in 1896.