Charles Petzold

The pronunciation of "Petzold" (like "old pets" switched around)

Birth: February 2, 1953; New Brunswick, New Jersey

Education: Stevens Institute of Technology

Books:

Programming Windows (Microsoft Press, 1988)
Contributor to The MS-DOS Encyclopedia, edited by Ray Duncan (Microsoft Press, 1988)
Programming the OS/2 Presentation Manager (Microsoft Press, 1989)
Contributor to Extending DOS, edited by Ray Duncan (Addison Wesley, 1990)
Programming Windows: The Microsoft Guide to Writing Applications for Windows 3 (2^nd edition, Microsoft Press, 1990)
Contributor to Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary (Microsoft Press, 1991)
Contributor to Extending DOS, edited by Ray Duncan (2^nd edition, Addison Wesley, 1992)
Programming Windows: The Microsoft Guide to Writing Applications for Windows 3.1 (3^rd edition, Microsoft Press, 1992)
OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming (Ziff-Davis Press, 1994)
Programming Windows 95 (4^th edition, Microsoft Press, 1996)
Programming Windows (5^th edition, Microsoft Press, 1998)
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Microsoft Press, 1999)
Programming Microsoft Windows with C# (Microsoft Press, 2001)
Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press, 2002)
Programming in the Key of C# (Microsoft Press, 2003)
Programming Microsoft Windows Forms (Microsoft Press, 2005)
Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press, 2006)
Contributor to Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, edited by Andy Oram & Greg Wilson (O'Reilly, 2007)
3D Programming for Windows: Three-Dimensional Graphics Programming for the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press, 2007)
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Wiley, 2008)
Programming Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft Press, 2010)
Programming Windows, 6^th edition (Microsoft Press, 2012)

Magazines:

PC Magazine

Contributing Editor (1985 to 2005)

PC Tutor column (1985 to 1987)

Environments column (1987 to 1995)

Microsoft Systems Journal

Contributing Editor (1987 to 2000)

Windows Sources

Contributing Editor and Columnist (1993)

MSDN Magazine

Contributing Editor (2000 to present)

Photograph by Deirdre Sinnott