Trevor Corson, Author of Secret Life of Lobsters

As we begin looking at The Secret Life of Lobsters, I thought it would be nice to have some background about Trevor Corson, the author. This is from his website:

Trevor Corson was born in Boston in 1969 and grew up in Washington D.C. He spent his boyhood summers on the Maine coast and wanted to become both a marine biologist and a commercial fisherman. Instead, a scholarship sent Trevor to Beijing for two years, where he was among the first American college students to study in the People's Republic of China. During his travels Trevor began journalistic writing; he went on to spend two years in Japan, where he lived among Buddhist monks in temples and wrote about their lives and practice. A fluent speaker of Chinese and Japanese, Trevor graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with a double major in Religion and East Asian Studies. After returning to the United States, Trevor moved to Little Cranberry Island, Maine, and worked for two years as a commercial fisherman aboard the lobster boat Double Trouble. As a journalist Trevor has worked at The Atlantic Monthly and was managing editor of Transition, a journal based at Harvard University; under his direction Transition won the Alternative Press Award for international reporting three times and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in general excellence. In 2005 he was a Knight Foundation boot-camp fellow at M.I.T. in investigative science journalism. Trevor has written on a wide variety of subjects, including hybrid cars, military affairs, organ transplants, Japanese Buddhism, and Chinese politics for publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Atlantic Monthly, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS had its genesis as an essay that was later included in The Best American Science Writing 2003 anthology. He currently resides in Washington D.C.

There is more to read about Corson at The Secret Life of Lobsters website.