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Bibliography
 

Below is an incomplete list of nonfiction books that were useful in researching and writing The High Heaven. I know firsthand the kind of hard work that goes into trying to tell accurate true stories about our history. Though this novel is as speculative as it is historical, it would not exist without the commitment to research and accuracy I've found in many nonfiction books whose details helped me to build the world of the novel. Not listed, of course, are the many family stories/albums and general local scuttlebutt that inspired the novel. These are their own kind of truth, to which I am also endlessly indebted.  

  • Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle by Colin Burgess and Chris Dubbs

  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring 

  • Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith by John Lofland

  • Dunes and Dreams by Michael Welsh

  • The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick

  • The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

  • Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race by Michael Allen

  • Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek

  • Moon: A Brief History by Bernd Brunner

  • Moonshot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard

  • Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle

  • Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for WSMR by Ryan H. Edginton

  • The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton

  • The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination by Karen Ní Mheallaigh

  • The Moon and the Western Imagination by Scott L. Montgomery

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