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BiographyWalt Anderson's first book, The Age of Protest, was published in 1969. He was at that time a freelance journalist, a doctoral student in political science and social psychology at USC, an instructor in American Government at Cal State Northridge, an adjunct professorof psychology at Pepperdine, and a group leader conducting programs at Esalen and other centers of the then-blossoming human potential movement. He also became a father that year; his son Daniel is now a geneticist at MIT. Although not all of his following years have been quite as eventful as 1969, Walt has been busy and productive in several different fields and disciplines. His main activity is, of course, writing: He has published 17 books on a range of subjects including political and cultural change, psychology, human evolution, Buddhism, biotechnology, and world politics. Many of these have been republished in foreign-language editions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. His best-known book, Reality Isn't What It Used To Be, has been in print for over 13 years and was honored as "one of the 100 most important books about the future." He serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Constructivism in the Social Sciences, and Futures. He writes occasional articles and reviews for these publications, and also for magazines such as Mother Jones, Reason, Psychotherapy Networker, and Time. He has worked with the Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco as one of the original members of the advisory board of the Rollo May Center for Humanistic Studies, as a member and chair of the board of trustees, and currently as a member of the distinguished consulting faculty. He has also taught at other insitutitons including the Professional School of Psychology and the School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, he spent the early years of his life on his family's cattle ranch in northeastern Nevada. Later he lived and worked on ranches in California before beginning undergraduate studies at Berkeley. |
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