Claude Shannon was born on 30 April 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, USA. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Moore and Norma Barzman. He died on 24 February 2001 in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
A Mind at Play, a biography of Shannon written by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, was published in 2017. They described Shannon as "the most important genius you've never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton".
