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Steve Olson

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Steve Olson is author of the book Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens, which Amazon has named one of the 20 best nonfiction books published in 2016 and which has been shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. He is also the author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and other books, and he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Science, the Smithsonian, and many other magazines. Since 1979, he has been a consultant writer for the National Academy of Sciences, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and other national scientific organizations. A native of Washington State, he now lives in Seattle.

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Steve Olson I'd like to write a book about the second most dramatic thing that has ever happened in Washington State -- the production of plutonium at the Hanford…moreI'd like to write a book about the second most dramatic thing that has ever happened in Washington State -- the production of plutonium at the Hanford Engineering Works for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki and for all the subsequent U.S. nuclear weapons produced during the Cold War. But I'm in the very early stages of planning for that book -- stay tuned.(less)
Steve Olson I grew up in Washington State, in a small town about 100 miles downwind from Mount St. Helens, but I went east for college and stayed there when I met…moreI grew up in Washington State, in a small town about 100 miles downwind from Mount St. Helens, but I went east for college and stayed there when I met my future wife in the back of an English class (though I was a physics major). I stayed on the East Coast until 2009, when my wife, a lifelong easterner, took a job in Seattle. When we moved to the Pacific Northwest, I decided to write about the most dramatic thing that has ever happened in my home state, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens was the obvious choice.(less)
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“Natural disasters are revelatory. The manner in which a society interprets a catastrophe and responds to the chaos exposes many of the accepted truths, prejudices, hopes, and fears of a culture. —Nicholas Shrady, The Last Day”
Steve Olson, Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

“Where the downed trees were removed from the monument, biological diversity is relatively impoverished. But where the trees were left to rot and revert to soil, seeds could take root and plants and animals could flourish. Many of the species that occupied these devastated areas were new to the region—western meadowlarks, spiders found previously in the deserts of eastern Washington, knapweed, stem-boring beetles. Today the area surrounding Mount St. Helens has much more biological diversity than it did before the eruption. For that reason, ecologists prefer to call the reestablishment of life around the volcano a renewal rather than a recovery.”
Steve Olson, Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

“at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Steve Olson, Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

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