Paul Sochaczewski's highly acclaimed nonfiction books of personal
travel include the five-volume Curious Encounters of the Human Kind
series, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, The Sultan and the
Mermaid Queen, Soul of the Tiger (with Jeff McNeely), and Distant
Greens. Gary Braver, bestselling author of Tunnel Vision, said
Paul's work is "in the great tradition of Asian reporting. The
humanity of Somerset Maughamn, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the
perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his
own." Paul's handbook for people who want to write their personal
stories, Share Your Journey, is based on the personal writing
workshops he runs in more than 20 countries. Redheads is his
ecocomic-thriller, set in the rainforest of a mythical sultanate in
Borneo.
Paul is an American writer (born August 1, 1947 in Brooklyn, New
York), writing coach, conservationist, and communications advisor
to international non-governmental organizations. He lives in
Geneva, Switzerland, and has lived and worked in more than 80
countries, including long stints in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia,
and Thailand.
Paul served in the United States Peace Corps from 1969 to 1971,
working as an education advisor in Sarawak, Malaysia. This exposure
to Asia informed his writing, and as a result most of his work has
a Southeast Asian theme. He was also founding creative director of
J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in Indonesia and
Singapore.
As head of creative services at WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature,
1981-1994, he created international public awareness campaigns to
protect rainforests, wetlands, plants, and biological diversity,
and managed the WWF Faith and Environment Network. With a MacArthur
Foundation grant, from mid-1992 to mid-1993 he took a leave of
absence from WWF to write articles on environmental problems in the
Pacific for the Environment Program at the East-West Center in
Honolulu. He then worked for ten years as global communications
director of the International Osteoporosis Foundation.
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