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Life of Alan Turing Emerges in Richer Detail From Short Story
The New York Times • • world
Key Points:
- Alan Turing, known for cracking the Nazi Enigma code and as the father of modern computing, was also a talented creative writer with a playful side.
- Sarah Dillon, a Cambridge English literature professor, has transcribed a short story written by Turing toward the end of his life, making it accessible to the public for the first time.
- Previously, only snippets of Turing's handwritten story were available, as the full text was largely illegible and known mainly to academic experts.
- The unfinished story, titled “Pryce’s Buoy,” is about 1,000 words long, preserved at Cambridge University, and ends abruptly with the phrase “Ron wouldn’t.”
