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.