The Nudist on the Late Shift - Brossura

A Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year

"Bronson has a rare ability to spin the worlds of business and technologies into entertaining stories."
--The New York Times Book Review

"The most complete and empathetic portrait of the Valley so far."
--The Village Voice Literary Supplement

"Bronson has captured this remarkable place and time."
--The Wall Street Journal

"Bronson relates the stories of a generation of new and wannabe multi-millionaires with conversational grace...an engaging, instructional and fascinating read."
--Denver Post

"Illuminates a shadowy world with a penetrating light."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Bronson is tuned in to the quirks of both personality and culture. His prose, often funny, maintains impressive velocity and is well suited to the manic life of the Valley and its colorful menagerie of characters."
--Publishers Weekly

"This clever storyteller keeps you laughing as you breeze from one episode to the next...a juicy collection of true tales."
--Time

Bronson writes feature articles for The New York Times Magazine and Wired and op-ed pieces for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Bronson has created a one-hour dramatic television series called "South of Market," derived from his Silicon Valley experiences.

He is also a founder of The Grotto, a writer's cooperative in San Francisco; Chairman of the Board of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, the exclusive national representative of sixty independent publishers; and a board member of Mercury House, a literary nonprofit press in San Francisco.

Bronson has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.