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PARKE PUTERBAUGH & ALAN BISBORT
Parke Puterbaugh writes about beaches, travel, music, popular culture, and the environment. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including a volume on wetlands for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and two books on the music and culture of the 1960s. He is a former senior editor and longtime contributor to Rolling Stone magazine. His writing has also appeared in USA Today, Outside, Men's Journal, Stereo Review and many other national publications. He has been a freelance curatorial assistant and writer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland since its inception. He has annotated more than 30 albums for such labels as Rhino Records, Time-Life Music, and Sony Music. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Puterbaugh holds bachelor's degrees in English and Sociology and a master's degree in Environmental Science, with an emphasis on the study of shorelines. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife Carol and daughter Hayley.

Alan Bisbort is a writer, editor, and researcher who has worked for the Library of Congress for the past 22 years. He is coauthor of the annual Literary Companions series, as well as The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (Scala Publishing), an illustrated handbook for visitors. His most recent books are White Rabbit and Other Delights: East Totem West; Sunday Afternoon, Looking for the Car: The Aberrant Art of Barry Kite; and The Works!: The Art of Charles Bragg. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, City Paper, Rolling Stone, Creem, Biblio, American Way, Connecticut and Brillís Content. His work for the Advocate Newspapers has earned awards for the past three years. He would like to teach the world to sing "Orange Claw Hammer" by Captain Beefheart or anything by Mance Lipscomb.

Puterbaugh and Bisbort have collaborated on five books, including California Beaches and Florida Beaches, both published by Avalon Travel Publishing. Their combined verbiage on the subject of beaches approaches a million words, and the authors can legitimately claim to have set foot on every publicly accessible beach in the continental United States. Awaiting publication is Groovy, Man: A Trip Through the Psychedelic Sixties, another collaborative effort. Former college roommates, Puterbaugh and Bisbort fantasize about someday coauthoring a contemporary sequel to Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West. Both would like to learn how to ride a surfboard, as well.
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