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Starred Review on November 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Freelance Swedish journalists Goldberg and Larsson, here translated by Hawkins, shine a spotlight on Markus Persson (b. 1979), creator of the cult video game smash Minecraft. Among Persson's early obsessions were building things out of LEGO pieces and programming simple games on his family's Commodore 128. As his family struggled—his father and sister battled drug addiction and his parents divorced—Persson grew more engrossed in the world of compu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More