Ask the Author: Steve Olson
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Steve Olson
I recently attended an exhibit in Everett of artwork by the painter Chuck Close, who has often been quoted as saying "inspiration is for amateurs." I doubt I'm as diligent as he is, but I do go to work every day after reading the Seattle Times and New York Times, and I work until dinnertime with a break for lunch. It's monotonous, but I get a lot done, both on books and on my policy work for scientific organizations.
Steve Olson
I'd like to write a book about the second most dramatic thing that has ever happened in Washington State -- the production of plutonium at the Hanford Engineering Works for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki and for all the subsequent U.S. nuclear weapons produced during the Cold War. But I'm in the very early stages of planning for that book -- stay tuned.
Steve Olson
I grew up in Washington State, in a small town about 100 miles downwind from Mount St. Helens, but I went east for college and stayed there when I met my future wife in the back of an English class (though I was a physics major). I stayed on the East Coast until 2009, when my wife, a lifelong easterner, took a job in Seattle. When we moved to the Pacific Northwest, I decided to write about the most dramatic thing that has ever happened in my home state, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens was the obvious choice.
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