ANDERSON, Walter Truett 1933-
(Walt Anderson)

PERSONAL: Born February 27, 1933, in Oakland, CA; son of Elbert William (a rancher) and Susan (Martin) Anderson; married Maurica Osborne, February 10, 1968; children: Daniel Griffith. Education: University of California—Berkeley, B.A., 1955; California State University—Northridge, M.A., 1967; University of Southern California, Ph.D., 1972.

ADDRESSES: Home—1112 Curtis St., Albany, CA 94706. Agent—Barbara Lowenstein, 250 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

CAREER: TV Guide, Los Angeles, CA, reporter and author of the column "Hollywood Teletype," 1960-64; freelance writer, 1965—.

WRITINGS:

The Upstart Spring: Esalen, Big Sur, and the HumanPotential Movement, Viking (New York, NY), 1982.

The Nation-State: An Introduction to American Government, Scott, Foresman (Glenview, IL), 1982.

Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics,Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World, HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA), 1990.

Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Reconstructing the Postmodern World, J. P. Tarcher (Los Angeles, CA), 1995.

Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be: The AugmentedAnimal and the Whole Wired World, W. H. Freeman (New York, NY), 1996.

Future of the Self: Inventing the Post-modern Person, J. P. Tarcher (Los Angeles, CA), 1997.

All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 2001.

The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2003.

Author of introduction to Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870, by Greg MacGregor, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1996. Author of "Television," a column in Los Angeles, 1965-69. Contributing editor, Los Angeles, 1965-69, Human Behavior, 1973-79, and Pacific News Service, beginning 1980; member of board of editors, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, beginning 1975.

under name walt anderson

(Editor) The Age of Protest, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1970.

Campaigns: Cases in Political Conflict, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1970.

(Editor) Politics and Environment, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1970, revised edition, 1976.

Politics and the New Humanism, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1973.

(With Joseph Allman) Evaluating Democracy, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1974.

A Place of Power: The American Episode in HumanEvolution, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1976.

(Editor) Therapy and the Arts, Harper (New York, NY), 1977.

Open Secrets: A Western Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, illustrated by Arlene Aldridge, Viking (New York, NY), 1979.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Library Journal, July, 2003, Mark Woodhouse, review of The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution.*