G. Pascal Zachary

Writer, Teacher, Historian

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain: Stories of Innocence Lost

Books by Zachary

Short Stories

Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain: Stories of Innocence Lost (2025)

Biography/History of Techno-science in 20th century America

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (1997) and The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (2022)

"Deeply informed and insightful, Zachary has thoroughly captured the spirit of Bush and his times."

--New York Times Book Review

Computers, technology and society

Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (1994)

"Riveting"

--Harvard Business Review

"Gripping"

--Fortune

"Compelling"

--Newsweek

World Affairs

The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy (2003)

"Zachary approaches the subject with an enormous amount of research and firsthand reporting."

--The New York Times

African affairs

Hotel Africa: the politics of escape (2012)

a literate and intensely-reported introduction to contemporary Africa

Quick Links

Zachary's memoir, "Married to Africa"

E-book edition of Showstopper