Biography
Alex Steffen attended Oberlin College before earning his B.A. from Allegheny College in 1990, and, interwoven with his career as a futurist, writer and editor, pursued graduate studies at University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies.
Previously, he was president of the Seattle urban livability group Allied Arts, started Steelhead magazine, and founded the now-defunct Fuse Foundation. Steffen guest-edited the final, unreleased issue of the Whole Earth Review. He also consulted to many environmental groups and political campaigns.
He lives in San Francisco.
Read more about this topic: Alex Steffen
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)