Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings is the author of Brainiac: Adventure in The Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs and The Ken Jennings Trivia Almanac. He was born in Seattle, but spent much of his childhood in Seoul, South Korea. A graduate of Bringham Young University in Provo, Utah, he worked as a computer programmer until becoming an unlikely celebrity due to his unprecedented, record-breaking streak on the television quiz show Jeopardy! He lives outside Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and son. His next book, Maphead, will be published by Scribner in 2012.