Steve Kemper

Steve Kemper has been a freelance journalist for more than 25 years and has written for Smithsonian, Outside, National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Yankee, BBC Wildlife, and many other magazines and newspapers.

He grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from the University of Detroit, he taught literature and writing at the University of Connecticut while earning a Ph.D. He has received several awards for his work, as well as a grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation for an environmental investigation in Bolivia. He has never had a regular full-time job.

He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife Judith Kaufman, a fine-art jeweler, and their two sons, Ben and Alex. Code Name Ginger--now in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel--is his first book.