David Page

Current

• Contributing Editor at TheTravelersNotebook.com
• Contributor at Men's Journal
• Freelance Writer at The New York Times

• Author at Countryman Press

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Education

• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Berkeley
• Dartmouth College

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Connections

34 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website

David Page’s Summary

2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award
Outdoor Writer of the Year, 2008 (Outdoor Writers Association of California)
Best Guidebook, 2008 (OWAC)
Best Magazine Feature, 2007 (OWAC)
Best Freelance Journalism, 2007 (OWAC)

David has run sled dogs into the Maroon Bells, seined for salmon off the Kenai, and traveled from the Algerian Sahara to Paris in the back of a Belgian floral delivery van. He has guided cycling tours in France and Spain and a multinational dinosaur-egg hunt in Argentine Patagonia. A graduate of the Writing Program at U.C. Irvine, he has written for the Discovery Channel, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal, and the New York Times. He is the author of Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada (Countryman Press/W.W. Norton)--named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He lives on the side of a volcano in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two young sons, and their illegal migrant canine.

David Page’s Specialties:

Travel & adventure writing, skiing, land use, western U.S. history...

David Page’s Experience

• Contributing Editor

  TheTravelersNotebook.com

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Contributor

  Men's Journal

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Freelance Writer

  The New York Times

  (Public Company; NYT; Newspapers industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

  Some recent clips:
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/greathomesanddestinations/20away.html?_r=1
  
  http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/travel/escapes/04rituals.html?ref=travel
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/travel/escapes/01away.html

• Author

  Countryman Press

  (Publishing industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  Author of Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada (2007):
  
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1581570775/sierrasurveyc-20

David Page’s Education

• University of California, Irvine

  MFA , Writing , 2002 — 2005

• University of California, Berkeley

  MA , Comparative Literature , 1992 — 1994

• Dartmouth College

  B.A. , History, Spanish Literature , 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

David Page’s Websites:

• My Website

David Page’s Groups:

•    Dartmouth Alumni in Entertainment & Media Association
•    American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc. (ASJA)

David Page’s Honors:

Outdoor Writer of the Year (Outdoor Writers Association of California)
Best Guidebook, 2008 (OWAC)
Best Magazine Feature (OWAC)
Best Freelance Journalism (OWAC)
MacDonald Harris Prize for Fiction (UCI)

David Page’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• getting back in touch