Alex Sheshunoff is a writer-like person whose work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Slate.com, Marketplace on National Public Radio, and other very prestigious media outlets. Before deciding to call himself a writer, Alex snuck through Yale and started and ran an Internet company in New York called E-The People - a nonpartisan precursor to Moveon.org, which was featured in the New York Times, Forbes, CNN, and elsewhere.
Five years after starting the company, burnt out, and facing a sort of quarter-life crisis, Alex gathered the hundred books he was most embarrassed not to have read in college and moved to a small island in the Pacific. There, he read his books, met a woman he’d later marry, and built a house on a remote island with a dozen friends. He later wrote a book about the experiencethis oneand got to rewrite that book while getting a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa.
Today, Alex and his wife, Sarah, live in California with their two sons, Ian and Andrew.
