Edwin Thompson

For over 40 years, Edwin Thompson has been a meteorite pioneer, continuously traveling the globe researching and discovering new specimens, educating experts and youth, and presenting to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide on meteorite hunting and cataclysmic impact. He has mentored countless now-renowned meteorite hunters, and, philanthropically, he has taught thousands of desert dwellers around the world how to locally discover and sell space rocks to help raise them from poverty.

Thompson’s efforts have produced hundreds of world class research and display specimens. His pieces can be found in museums, universities, and research institutes worldwide, including the U.S. National Museum/Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum in Chicago, the Natural History Museum in London, NASA/Johnson Space Center, the Paris Museum of Natural History, the Max Planck Institute, and the National Museum of Natural History in Brazil.

Creatively, Thompson has studied writing, the early American novel, and English literature, and he is currently enrolled in a Harvard University writing program. For over 20 years, he has penned short stories and adventure articles for national magazines.

EarthUnder, Book 1 of The Meteorite Chronicles, is his first novel.