Elliott Almond
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Introduction | Author of Surfing, Mastering Waves From Basic to Intermediate (Mountaineers Books, 2009). Formerly worked at the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and San Jose Mercury News. I covered 13 Olympics. |
| Interests | Hiking in mountains or redwoods on North Coast, surfing, movies, books, writing, beach, travel, Patagonia, Maine, Spanish, |
| Favorite movies | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Before Sunrise, Signing in the Rain, Bladerunner |
| Favorite music | Swell Season, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, Manu Chao, Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams, the Frames, Allison Krause, Rosanne Cash, Bruce Springsteen |
| Favorite books | The History of Love, W.G. Sebold, Julio Cortazar, Milan Kundera, Legend of Sleepy Hallow, too many others. |
