Gene Brewer (born Eugene N. Brewer, 4 July 1937 in
Muncie, Indiana) is the author of the
K-PAX series of
novels, about a man who claims to be a visiting extraterrestrial from a planet called K-PAX:
K-PAX (1995),
On a Beam of Light (2001),
K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot (2002),
K-PAX IV (2007) and
Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in
K-PAX: The Trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX
books. The first book in the series was made into a
Universal Pictures film in 2001; it stars
Kevin Spacey and
Jeff Bridges.