bio

David Wolman is a contributing editor at Wired. He has also written for such publications as Outside, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Discover, Forbes, New Scientist, and Salon, and his work appeared in Best American Science Writing 2009. A former Fulbright journalism fellow in Japan and graduate of Stanford University's journalism program, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he received a 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. His 2008 story about activists in Egypt using Facebook to mobilize against the regime of Hosni Mubarak was one of the earliest pieces of long-form journalism about what would come to be known as the Arab Spring. He followed that up with an e-book, The Instigators, published by The Atavist in May, 2011. His first book, A Left-Hand Turn Around the World, was published by Da Capo Press (hardcover 2005, paperback 2006). His second book, Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, was published by HarperCollins (hardcover 2008, paperback 2009). His latest book, The End of Money, will be published by Da Capo Press in February, 2012. For publicity and media inquiries about The End of Money or A Left-Hand Turn Around the World, please contact: Lissa Warren [Lissa.warren (at) PerseusBooks.com]. For Righting the Mother Tongue, please contact: Alberto Roja [Alberto.Roja (at) HarperCollins.com]. And for The Instigators and speaking engagements, please contact: Anne Marie at DiStefano Communications [amdistefano (at) gmail.com]