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I have discovered another go to author. Marie Benedict's novel, The Other Einstein was excellent. I look forward to reading more of her work. It is not a biography but rather a historical novel about the life of Albert Einstein's first wife, Meliva. Their love story in the beginning holds great promise and then as time passes Meliva allows Albert to rob her of her vocation and becomes unhappy. The more unhappy she becomes the more he seeks out other relationships. A brilliant physicist herself, many question how much of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was hers. This novel portrays that she had quite a significant contribution to the work and he left her name off of the final paper. Princeton has published papers of Einstein online which can be found HERE. Many people say the letters written between him and Meliva prove her contribution was significant to his work. Einstein ruined Meliva's career or more correctly, she allowed him to ruin it. The book is an important work in explaining how women in the early 20th century were often kept from contributing their talents in meaningful ways by their husbands. Young women of today should read the book to understand how the choices they make in their personal lives impacts their futures. Young men should read the book to see how not to act. Adults should read the book because it is a good book. Please click on the book title and author's name above to follow the links to more information. And enjoy the video that follows which is a short biography of Meliva.
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