John Harvey Wheeler (October 17, 1918 – September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar.
The novel was made into a movie, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, in 1964.
In later years, Wheeler was a founding editor of the Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 1982, and an early advocate of online education and the Internet as a democratizing tool.
In 1960, he became a longtime fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California.
While at CSDI he wrote, edited or contributed to a dozen books, including Democracy in a Revolutionary Era (1968) and The Virtual Library (1987).