The Many Lives of James LovelockBased on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal papers and scientific archive, Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man. James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem. Lovelock's