Benjamin Lukoff

Born and raised in Seattle, Benjamin D. Lukoff first became interested in local history at the age of six, when his father bought him pioneer granddaughter Sophie Frye Bass’s “Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle” at the gift shop of the Museum of History and Industry. He studied English, Russian, and linguistics at the University of Washington, and went on to earn his master's in English linguistics from University College London. His writing has appeared in the Pacific Northwest online newspaper Crosscut (now known as Cascade PBS) and on his own blog, Writes of Way.