Anneli Rufus is an award-winning American journalist and author.
Born in Los Angeles, California, she first went to college in Santa Barbara, then to the University of California, Berkeley. Rufus earned an English degree and became a journalist. She's written for many publications, including Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe . Currently she is the literary editor for the East Bay Express , an alternative weekly newspaper. She is now married and resides in Berkeley, California.
Rufus is the author of many books, including The Scavengers' Manifesto (2009), The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death (2005) and Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto (2002), as well as off-beat travel books co-authored with her husband, Kristan Lawson.
Bibliography
- Europe Off the Wall: A Guide to Unusual Sites (1988) ISBN 0471637378 (with Kristan Lawson)
- America Off the Wall: The West Coast: A Guide to Unusual Sites (1989) ISBN 0471622699 (with Kristan Lawson)
- Goddess Sites: Europe: Discover Places Where the Goddess Has Been Celebrated and Worshipped Throughout Time (1991) ISBN 0062507478 (with Kristan Lawson)
- The World Holiday Book: Celebrations for Every Day of the Year (1994) ISBN 0062509128
- Weird Europe: A Guide to Macabre, Bizarre and Just Plain Weird Sights (1999) ISBN 0312198736 (with Kristan Lawson)
- Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Claire's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saintly Relics (1999) ISBN 1569246874
- California Babylon: A Guide to Scandal, Mayhem and Celluloid in the Golden State (2000) ISBN 0312263856 (with Kristan Lawson)
- Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto (2002) ISBN 1569245134
- The Party Girl Cookbook (2002) ISBN 0785815643 (contributor)
- Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival (2004) ISBN 1930722389 (contributor)
- The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death (2005) ISBN 1569243816
- The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives: 27 Women Writers on Love, Infidelity, Sex Roles, Race, Kids, and More (2006) ISBN 193072263X (contributor)
- Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book (2006) ISBN 0385733178 (contributor)
- Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (2007) ISBN 1594489475 (contributor)
- Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On (2008) ISBN 1585426679
- The Scavengers' Manifesto (2009) ISBN 1585427179 (with Kristan Lawson)
References
- ^ "Bay Guardian, East Bay Express Land SPJ Awards" Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. November 22, 2006.
- ^ Anneli Rufus biography at Crime Magazine
External links
- Homepage
- Scavenging Blog
- "Stuck" Blog
- Blog at Huffington Post
- Alternet articles archive
- East Bay Express articles archive
- Interviewed on WNYC Radio, 4/13/09
- Interviewed for a U.S. News & World Report Podcast, 3/4/09
- Interviewed on KPFA Radio, 12/24/2006
- Interviewed on KPFA Radio, 8/22/05
- Interviewed on WNYC Radio, 8/16/05
- Interviewed on WNYC Radio, 3/31/03
- Interviewed on NPR Radio, 2/19/00
- Interviewed by trashotron.com, 4/20/09
- San Francisco Chronicle : Berkeley author Anneli Rufus shares the pleasures of a misunderstood breed
- St. Petersburg Times : Loner . . . or paranoiac?
- New York Sun : Loners vs. Loneliness
- U.S. News & World Report : Scavenge to Get (Almost) Everything for Free
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer : 'Scavengers' Manifesto' authors share 'frugal' wisdom for hard times
- Sacramento Bee : Frugal living is antidote to excess
- Boston Herald : Freecycling: Thrifty go on scavenger hunt for discarded treasures
- Air America Media : Five Questions for Scavenger Anneli Rufus
- Boing Boing : How to be an urban scavenger
- Lansing State Journal : There are hundreds of books about ways to incorporate "green" actions into your everyday life, but few tap into the bargain-hunter's soul quite like Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson's "Scavenger's Manifesto."
- Mother Nature Network : They brake for yard sales. And dumpsters, too. They even have matching metal detectors.
- Salon.com : An adventure in the thrifty, nifty world of die-hard scavenging, where you won't believe what you can find if you just know where to look
- San Francisco Chronicle :
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