Don George is the author of the award-winning anthology The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of How to Be a Travel Writer, the best-selling travel writing guide in the world. He is Editor at Large for National Geographic Travel and has been Travel Editor at the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, Salon and Lonely Planet. Besides his writing and editing, he teaches travel writing workshops every summer in Paris and online throughout the year. He also lectures on tours around the world for National Geographic and for Geographic Expeditions. He is the co-founder and chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference in Corte Madera, Calif. It is now in its 31st year.