Although not quite literature you may find these sites akin to biographies in the techie sphere

From Clive Maxfield:
http://www.thewaythingswere.com/

and the technical background story of Apollo 11

http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html


Books that are not quite elec eng, but still about science that I have enjoyed in one way or another

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Made In America - Bill Bryson
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact - John Cornwell
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - David Bodanis and Simon Singh

(In the 2nd book above Bryson describes Alexander Graham Bell's development of a metal detector to find the bullets lodged in Pres. McKinley's body, but ended up detected the metal springs in the bed frame. I was reading this part coincidentally on the same day that I was touring the Bell museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The museum described the invention, but not the reason for its failure.)

I have also read a fairly chilling book about the use of numbers and statistics in society today (e.g how google mines its data, how IBM is trying to build numeric models of humans to help with resource deployment, etc.)
The Numerati - Stephen Baker

-Aubrey

P.S. And by the way if you even only see one play, you have to see Copenhagen by Michael Frayn about the meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg during WWII (which is actually described in several of the books above). It is without doubt the most brilliant play I have ever seen.