
about the author
Barry Bergman is a New York City refugee, long ago replanted in the SF Bay Area. He’s been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer/editor—with scores of bylined stories in Sierra, California, and Mother Jones magazines—and a communications pro at UC Berkeley and assorted nonprofits. Before earning his journalism degree at San Francisco State University he worked in a variety of industrial settings, including two years in an Arizona copper smelter, an experience he would reimagine, eventually, as the fictional background for Proles, his first completed novel.
A slow learner and a late bloomer, Bergman long nurtured a childhood dream to one day become the world’s oldest emerging author. He’s currently working on a new novel, Mr. Pitiful, in a house he shares with his journalist wife and two cats, Cosmo and Mookie (pictured), in Berkeley, California.
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