Steve Alten

Steve Alten is an American thriller and science fiction author, best known for the Meg series about a surviving megalodon, which began with Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror (1997) and inspired the 2018 film The Meg. He also wrote the Domain trilogy, the Loch novels and standalone thrillers such as Goliath and Sharkman. A former educator with degrees from Penn State, the University of Delaware and Temple University, he founded Adopt-An-Author, a free reading program for secondary schools.