Alice Calaprice

Alice Calaprice was born in Berlin, Germany. She immigrated to the U.S. with her mother and sister in 1951, and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. A few years after moving to Princeton, NJ, in 1970 with her husband and young children, she began work at the Einstein Archive at the Institute for Advanced Study, indexing all 42,000 documents in the archive at that time. After the job was done, she was asked to work at the Princeton University Press offices to edit science and math manuscripts as well as the forthcoming series, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. During this time, she wrote and published a number of books about Einstein herself. While Senior Editor and administrator of the Einstein Translation Project at PUP, she received a National Science Foundation grant from the History of Science division as well as the Literary Market Place's award for individual editorial achievement in scholarly publishing. An avid overseas traveler and wildlife photographer, she is now retired and lives in southern California. Her most recent book, AN EINSTEIN ENCYCLOPEDIA, co-authored with Daniel Kennefick and Robert Schulmann, was published by Princeton University Press in late 2015.