From the Kindle version of the novel A Deepness in the Sky:

VERNOR VINGE won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award four times, for the novels The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), for the novella True Names (1981), and for a novelette. His best-known works are admired for their extraordinary combination of groundbreaking science fiction concepts and epic adventures of great emotional power. Sought widely by publications as disparate as Rolling Stone and Wired, he is in constant demand as a speaker to scientific forums in the field of cybernetics and especially the area of human and machine intelligence. He has had a number of short stories published in Analog and other science fiction magazines. He is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Diego State University and currently lives in San Diego.