The Mythical ManMonth. Title: The Mythical ManMonth. ISBN-13: 9780201835953. by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Author: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., was born in 1931 in Durham, NC. He received an A.B.summa cum laude in physics from Duke and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard, under Howard Aiken, the inventor of the early Harvard computers.