PHILIP L. FRADKIN
P.O. Box 817
Pt. Reyes, CA 94956
415/663-8733
philfrad@svn.net

Brief Biography:
Philip Fradkin was a staff writer and environmental writer for the Los Angeles Times. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Watts racial conflict. He has also served as the Assistant Secretary for the California Resources Agency and Western editor of the Audobon Magazine. He taught writing at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and he is the author of seven books on California and the American West, two of which have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes.

Public Lecture Topics:

• Summarized the discussions at the annual meeting of the California Studies Association in Long Beach
• Lectured on earthquakes and natural disasters at the California Academy of Science and the Oakland Museum
• Numerous talks at libraries and bookstores throughout the state on aspects of California history

Publications

• Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West. Simon & Schuster, 2002,2003.
• Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay. UC Press, 2001,2003.
• Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault. University of California Press, 1999.
• The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History. University of California Press, 1997.
• Wanderings of a Environmental Journalist: In Alaska and the American West, University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy, University of Arizona Press, 1989.
• Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West, Knopf, 1989, UA Press, 1991.
• A River No More: The Colorado River and the West, Knopf, 1981, UA Press, 1984, UC Press, 1996.
• California, the Golden Coast, Viking, 1974.

Philip Fradkin has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 01-Feb-2000.