Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention That Changed the Way We Write

by Gyoergy Moldova and György Moldova

Book Overview

László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow Hungarian, Andor Goy, also played a vital role in the pen's developmentand that, in a tragic twist of shared fate, business pressures and politics ultimately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982578113
• ISBN13: 9780982578117
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: New Europe Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up