Daniel Glick Biography
Daniel Glick is the author of Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two
Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth, published by PublicAffairs
in Spring, 2003. The book is an account of a five-month, around-the-world trip
Glick took with his two children after becoming a single father and losing his
brother to breast cancer. Their journey took them to places of great
ecological wonder that are threatened by human development, including coral
reefs in Australia and Bali, orangutan habitat in Borneo, and the Vietnamese
jungle home of the last Javan rhinos in mainland Asia.
In January, 2001, Glick published Powder Burn: Arson, Money and Mystery on
Vail Mountain, an investigation into the costliest act of ecoterrorism in
U.S. history. Powder Burn was praised as "an alpine Midnight in
the Garden of Good and Evil" by Outside magazine, and was a Denver
Post bestseller and Colorado Book Award finalist. While he was writing the
book, Glick was awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship at the University of
Colorado, one of five journalists chosen annually to spend an academic year
researching environmental law, policy and science.
Prior to writing Powder Burn, Glick worked at Newsweek magazine
for 13 years; the first six as a Washington, D.C. correspondent and the last
seven as a Colorado-based special correspondent covering the Rocky Mountain
region. After moving to Colorado in late 1994, Glick covered a rash of
high-profile stories, including the JonBenet Ramsey homicide, the Columbine
High School tragedy, and the mysterious crash of a fully-armed Air Force
fighter jet. He appeared more than 40 times on Larry King Live as a
commentator on the Ramsey case, as well as CBS This Morning, NBC
News’ Today show and many others. He was also an associate producer
of a critically acclaimed documentary entitled JonBenet’s America.
He traveled from the panhandle of Idaho to the boot heel of New Mexico for Newsweek,
writing about a broad range of subjects -- from the bison slaughter in
Yellowstone National Park to a cover story about the possibility of life on
Mars. While a Washington correspondent, he contributed to several Newsweek
cover stories during the Gulf War, as well as many others -- including the San
Francisco earthquake, the Hubble Space Telescope, gays in the military, and
global warming. He has reported about the demise of the Siberian tiger from
the Russian Far East and traveled upcountry in Haiti with U.S. Special Forces
troops.
Glick has also written for more than a dozen other magazines, including Rolling
Stone, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Sunday
Magazine, Outside, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Sports Afield, National Wildlife
and Wilderness.
Before completing his Masters degree in journalism at the University of
California at Berkeley, Glick lived in Asia for three years, teaching French
and English in Japan and herding yaks in Tibet. An avid outdoorsman
experienced in climbing, hiking, skiing and kayaking, he has lived on four
continents. A native Californian, Glick now lives in Colorado with his two
children.
This biography was last updated on 07/05/2010.
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