Bill Sharpsteen

Bill Sharpsteen is a freelance writer and photographer. He has just completed his first book project, called "Dirty Water," which tells the story of how one of the world's most polluted bodies of water, Santa Monica Bay, was rescued by ordinary citizens.

His articles have appeared in Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, The Washington Post, TV Guide, Entrepreneur, Photo Techniques, Outdoor Photographer, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Westways, Washington Journey, Emmy, Buzzworm, Seattle Weekly, Visio and Transpacific. Preferring to cover a wide variety of subjects, Sharpsteen has written about such topics as business, television, the environment, personalities, travel and entertainment.

Sharpsteen has shown his art photography at more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northwest and Southwest. His popular moonlit landscapes have been published in Los Angeles Times, Westways (the article won the 1996 Lowell Thomas Award, Society of American Travel Writers, for best illustrated article), Outdoor Photographer and Photo Techniques. The New York Times currently offers his moonlit photography on their website devoted to artwork. His editorial photographs have appeared in The Washington Post, Entrepreneur, Emmy, Transpacific, Westways, Washington Journey and Buzzworn.

Sharpsteen also worked during the early 1980s as an award-winning documentary producer for PBS, covering Alaska Natives and the social issues facing them. Those

shows garnered such awards as a silver medal in the 1983 International Film & TV Festival of New York, the Lincoln Unity Award and Alaska Press Club awards for best documentary and best video photography.

Sharpsteen received his BA in Communications (summa cum laude) from Washington State University in 1980. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Gloria.