Andy Weir
Andy Weir was born in Davis, California, United States on June 16th, 1972 and is the Novelist. At the age of 51, Andy Weir biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Andrew Taylor "Andy" Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, The Martian, was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015.
He also worked as a computer programmer for much of his life.
He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016.
Early life
Weir was raised in Milpitas, California. His father, John Weir, was a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, and his mother was an electrical engineer. He was an only child, and his parents divorced when he was eight. Weir grew up reading classic science fiction such as the works of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. At the age of 15, he began working as a computer programmer for Sandia.
After high school, Weir studied computer science at the University of California, San Diego, though he did not graduate. He worked as a programmer for several software companies, including AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Blizzard, where he worked on the video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.
Personal life
According to Weir, he grew up in Milpitas, California, where he attended Rancho Milpitas Junior High School and Milpitas High School.
In 2015, Weir lived in Mountain View, California, in a rented two-bedroom apartment. Since he has a fear of flying, he never visited the set of the film adaptation of The Martian in Budapest, where most of the scenes set on Mars were shot at Korda Studios. In 2015, with the help of therapy and medication, he was able to fly to Houston to visit the Johnson Space Center, and to San Diego to attend Comic-Con.
Weir is married to Ashley Weir, whom he met while he was in Los Angeles to pitch a TV series. They have one son born in 2021. Weir has stated that he is agnostic, and has described his political views as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.