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Boilerplate Bio
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The
Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my
feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots,
housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that
makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
Home From Nowhere was a continuation
of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it
appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.
His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes
on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press,
is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry
into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America
is going to do with it's mutilated cities.
This was followed by The Long Emergency,
published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century."
His 2008 novel, World Made By Hand, was a fictional depiction of the post-oil American future. The sequel to that book, "The Witch of Hebron," was published in 2010.
Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other
novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches and Maggie Darling.
He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and
Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.
Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948.
He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city
in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the
State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter
and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff
writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to
write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture
or the related design fields.
He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other
colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations
such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New
York.
Photo by Charlie Samuels
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