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He's the author of \"A Sense of Place\" by Michael Shapiro\" (http://www.travelerstales.com/catalog/place/) and specializes in travel, but his interests range far and wide -- since 2011 he's been the gambling columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Shapiro's story about rafting through the Grand Canyon in the wake of John Wesley Powell's first descent is in \"Best Travel Writing 2011\"  (http://www.amazon.com/Best-Travel-Writing-2011-Stories/dp/1609520084) His essay, 'The Longest Day' appears in \"The Best Travel Writing 2005\" (http://www.travelerstales.com/catalog/best2005/). His feature about Jan Morris's Wales was the cover story for National Geographic Traveler magazine (http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine). Shapiro has written about Kauai for Islands magazine (http://www.islands.com/magazine magazine and interviewed Studs Terkel for The Sun, a literary journal. His Washington Post travel section story,  \"Mongolia's Nadaam festival\" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040805526.html) featured story and photos about Mongolia's Nadaam festival. A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers' Tales) (http://www.travelerstales.com/catalog/place/) is an award-winning collection of interviews with Bill Bryson, Frances Mayes, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessen, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, Simon Winchester, and many others. In 2007, Shapiro won the Bedford Pace grand award for his National Geographic feature on Jan Morris's Wales. He won the top prize in the Travel Classics contest (http://www.travelclassics.com/conferences/contests.shtml) each of the four times that he's entered it -- for stories on Arizona and Ireland. The Society of American Travel Writers (http://satw.org) recognized Shapiro with a 1998 Lowell Thomas award for an investigative piece in the SF Chronicle on frequent flier programs. Shapiro has appeared on national television networks including CNN and PBS, as well as on radio shows ranging from KGO's 'On the Go' to KPFA's 'Morning Show.' He teaches annually at the Book Passage (http://www.bookpassage.com/) travel writers conference near San Francisco. Recently he has interviewed some of the world's most talented musicians, including BB King, Smokey Robinson, Merle Haggard, Natalie Merchant, Brian Wilson, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch and Greg Brown for newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also interviewed Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, Steve Howe of YES, and the inimitable Richard Thompson. See links to stories on his home page. He works part-time as a sports editor at The Press Democrat, a daily newspaper in Santa Rosa, Calif. Shapiro has biked through Cuba for the Washington Post, celebrated Holy Week in Guatemala for the Dallas Morning News, and floated down the Mekong River on a Laotian cargo barge for an online travel magazine. His work also appears in the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times. Shapiro contributed the text to Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya (http://guatemala-thebook.com/) a pictorial book with photos by Kraig Lieb, a photographer for Lonely Planet. Before turning to travel literature, Shapiro researched online travel and wrote two books about using the Net for travel, including Internet Travel Planner. His first book on Net-travel topics appeared in 1997 -- subsequent editions appeared in 2000 and 2002. In 1994, he helped develop the first Web directory and magazine, Global Network Navigator, created by O'Reilly Media. Shapiro spent a year working for CNET, an online tech-news site, before embarking on a freelance career in 1998. Michael lives with his wife in Sonoma County, spending his free time cycling, river rafting, sea kayaking and volunteering for ETC (http://etctrips.org), a group that takes disabled people on outdoor adventures."},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":["Shapiro, Michael, 1962-"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Michael Shapiro in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Shapiro%2C+Michael%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View <a href=\"https://michaelshapiro.net/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal or professional website</a> for Michael Shapiro"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Michael Shapiro in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Shapiro+Michael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Petaluma","Sebastopol"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Michael Shapiro (1962-)"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"Guatamala : a Journey Through the Land of the Maya"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"michael_shapiro"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2014/08/06"},{"label":"Filename","value":"michael_shapiro.jpg"},{"label":"Title","value":"Michael Shapiro (1962-)"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?filter_363=michael_shapiro&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Shapiro (1962-)</a>"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Michael Shapiro (1962-)"]}],"description":"Michael Shapiro (1962-)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Michael Shapiro (1962-)","height":450,"width":450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":450,"width":450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/a20c0679-ea6f-4384-9c6b-7622592fc4bf/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}