Books by Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of seventeen previous books on engineering and design, including the classics To Engineer Is Human and The Pencil. Catherine Petroski is a photographer and the author of fiction and nonfiction books, including A Bride's Passage. She and Henry live in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.