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cory doctorow
Cory Doctorow (
craphound.com
) is an award-winning novelist,
activist, blogger, and journalist. He is the co-editor of
Boing Boing
(
boingboing.net
), one of the most popular blogs in the world, and
has contributed to the
New York Times Sunday Magazine
,
The
Economist
,
Forbes
,
Popular Science
,
Wired
,
Make
,
InformationWeek
,
Locus
,
Salon
,
Radar
, and many other magazines, newspapers, and
websites.
His novels and short story collections include
Someone Comes
to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Down and Out in the Magic King-
dom, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present,
and his most recent
novel, a political thriller for young adults called
Little Brother,
published by Tor Books in May 2008. All of his novels and short
story collections are available as free downloads under the terms
of various Creative Commons licenses.
Doctorow is the former European Director of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (
eff.org
) and has participated in many treaty-
making, standards-setting, and regulatory and legal battles in
countries all over the world. In 2006/2007, he was the inaugural
Canada/U.S. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the Annen-
berg Center at the University of Southern California. In 2007,
he was also named one of the World Economic Forum’s “Young
Global Leaders” and one of
Forbes
magazine’s top 25 “Web Celebri-
ties.”
Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1971, he is a four-time university
dropout. He now resides in London, England, with his wife and
baby daughter, where he does his best to avoid the ubiquitous
surveillance cameras while roaming the world, speaking on copy-
right, freedom, and the future.
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