About the Author:
William Sullivan

William L. Sullivan is the author of ten books and numerous articles about Oregon, including a "Oregon Trails" feature column for Eugene's Register-Guard.

A fifth-generation Oregonian, Sullivan began hiking at the age of 5 and has been exploring new trails ever since.

After studying at Deep Springs College in the California desert, receiving an English degree from Cornell University, and studying linguistics at Germany's Heidelberg University, he earned an M.A. in German literature from the University of Oregon.

Sullivan's hobbies include backcountry ski touring, playing the harpsichord, reading foreign language novels, and promoting libraries. He helped with the campaign to build Eugene's new library, is a member of the Oregon State Library Board, and is vice president of the Lane Library League, a citizen group with the goal of extending library service to the 90,000 people in Lane County who currently lack service.

He and his wife, Janell Sorensen, live in Eugene, but they spend summers in a log cabin they built by hand on a roadless stretch of a remote river in Oregon's Coast Range.

In 1985 Sullivan set out to investigate Oregon's wilderness on a 1,361-mile solo backpacking trek from the state's westernmost shore at Cape Blanco to Oregon's easternmost point in Hells Canyon. His journal of that two-month adventure, published as "Listening for Coyote," was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and topped the New York Times' year-end review of travel books.

Sullivan's latest work is "Oregon Trips & Trails," a full-color guide to the state's most beautiful places, illustrated with 800 color maps and photographs. The book has details for visiting 100 star destinations worth a journey, 65 hiking trails, and 250 places to stay -- including campgrounds, bed & breakfast inns, and quaint hotels.

With the completion of the popular 5-book series of "100 Hikes" guides to Oregon's trails Sullivan has hiked every significant trail in Oregon. Now he is rehiking many of those trails to keep his guidebooks up to date. "100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon" is printed fresh every year, and his other books are updated every other year, keeping pace with new trails, storm damage and new fee systems.

Sullivan's other books include "Hiking Oregon's History" and "Exploring Oregon's Wild Areas" and a popular series of 100 Hikes guidebooks to the regions of Oregon.

Together with his brother, OSU business professor David Sullivan, Bill has co-authored two college computer textbooks, Desktop Publishing and The New Computer User. Bill has also edited and published two books written by his father, retired Salem newspaper editor J. Wesley Sullivan: "Jam on the Ceiling" and "To Elsie With Love."

Sullivan's first novel, "A Deeper Wild," was published in April 2000. This historical novel is based on the true adventures of Joaquin Miller, the swashbuckling Oregon Country gold miner, editor, pony express rider, horse thief and county judge who won international renown in 1872 as the "Poet of the Sierras."

Sullivan's newest book (April, 2004) is "Cabin Fever: Notes From a Part-Time Pioneer," a memoir about the log cabin Sullivan and his wife built by hand on a roadless tract along a remote river in Oregon's Coast Range.

William Sullivan's books 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon 100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades 100 Hikes in Southern Oregon 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Oregon Coast & Coast Range Oregon Trips & Trails Cabin Fever: Notes From a Part-Time Pioneer Listening for Coyote Hiking Oregon's History A Deeper Wild Exploring Oregon's Wild Areas: A Guide for Hikers, Backpackers, Climbers, Cross-Country Skiers, Paddlers More Oregon Stuff: Maps & Books DVDs Apparel Food Lewis & Clark