Charles Wohlforth
Charles P. Wohlforth is an author and journalist, former public official, and consultant. He has written extensively about Alaska and has collaborated with other authors on a variety of topics.
Wohlforth's books include The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Science and Technology category, in 2004, and more than 10 other books about science, environment, medicine, history, biography, and travel. His column in the Anchorage Daily News won the "Best of the West" award in 2019. Wohlforth served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly and led the Coalition for Education Equity as executive director for five years. He was a consultant on energy and transportation issues on the state and national level. He was host of several radio, podcast and TV programs on Alaska Public Media. He graduated from Princeton University with high honors in 1986.
Partial bibliography
- How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care
- Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets].
- From the Shores of Ship Creek: Stories of Anchorage’s First 100 Years.
- To Russia With Love: An Alaskan’s Journey.
- The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth.
- Saving for the Future: My Life and the Permanent Fund.
- The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change.
- Frommer's Alaska. Fourteen editions
- Alaska For Dummies. Five editions
- Frommer's Family Vacations in the National Parks. Three editions
- Crisis in the Commons: The Alaska Solution.
- Spectacular Alaska.