Don George

Before becoming Lonely Planet's global travel editor, Don
George was travel editor at the San Francisco Examiner &
Chronicle for nine years and then founded and edited
Salon.com's travel site, Wanderlust. In two and a half
decades of wandering, he has visited more than 60
countries, and has published more than 600 articles in
magazines and newspapers around the globe. Don has edited
four anthologies of travel writing, The Kindness of
Strangers and A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad, both
published by Lonely Planet; Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-
Life Tales of Adventure and Romance; and Travelers' Tales:
Japan. As a spokesperson for Lonely Planet, he is
frequently interviewed on TV and radio and in print, and is
often a featured speaker at travel and literary
conferences. Don is the co-founder and chairman of the
annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers
Conference and a visiting lecturer at the University of
California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. His
new book, Travel Writing, will be published by Lonely
Planet in March 2005. He lives in the San Francisco Bay
Area with his wife and two children.