Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr.

• is the award-winning writer of many books and hundreds of feature stories for national magazines and newspapers.

• has worked with National Geographic for 25 years, first as an editor, writer, and columnist for Traveler magazine, then as an author of guidebooks. (Most recent: The National Geographic Traveler: San Francisco.)

• has written travel guides for the Smithsonian, and other books such as Idiom Savant: Slang As It Is Slung.

• has had his travel stories recognized with three Lowell Thomas Awards (the Oscars of the field) and his guidebooks with Gold and other awards from the Society of American Travel Writers.