The Author

David Goodman (me) is an award-winning independent journalist, a Contributing Writer for Mother Jones, host of the popular radio show "The Vermont Conversation" on WDEV, and the author of nine books.

I write about what I'm passionate about, which has led me to chronicle topics ranging from world and domestic politics to backcountry skiing. My articles have appeared in Outside, Boston Globe, Washington Post, National Geographic Adventure, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Travel & Leisure, Eating Well, Ski, Powder, and numerous other national publications.

I originally moved to Vermont to live in the mountains where I love to ski. I quickly grew to love the interesting, generous, tolerant and creative people who live in these mountains. I am the author of four historical guidebooks to backcountry skiing: the most recent is Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northesast: 50 Classic Ski Tours in New England and New York (AMC Books, 2010). In 2011, the Boston Globe dubbed me "the godfather...of Northeast backcountry skiing." A bit over the top, but I'll take it.

I am also the co-author of three New York Times bestselling books with my amazing sister, Amy Goodman (host of the news show Democracy Now!): The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (Hyperion, 2004); Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (Hyperion, 2006), and Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (Hyperion, 2008). I am also the author of Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa (University of California Press, 2002), which Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu hailed as “a searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject.”

I have been a guest on many national and local radio and television shows, including PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio, NPR's Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, C-SPAN, CNN, Vermont Public Radio and Vermont's iconic independent radio station WDEV. My reporting is included in the book, In the Name of Democracy (Metropolitan, 2005), and in No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950–2000 (Africa World Press, 2008). Nelson Mandela wrote in his foreword to No Easy Victories, “It is my hope and belief that [this book] will inspire a new generation of activists to take up today’s challenges.”

When I'm not writing or skiing, I have been a Little League coach and a Red Sox fan. And if you listen closely, I can be heard playing clarinet in the Green Mountain Mahler Festival Orchestra and the Burlington Civic Symphony, and a klezmer trio. I live with my wife, Sue Minter, and children, Ariel and Jasper, in Waterbury Center, Vermont.

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