Brad Stone has been writing for Newsweek since 1995. As a general assignment correspondent for the magazine, he covered the famous 1998 Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa homerun chase, the infamous serial killer nurse case in Indiana, and the jury deliberations in the Timothy McVeigh trial.
Since 1998, as the magazine's Silicon Valley correspondent, Stone has owned one of the best perches in the nation from which to cover the boom, bust, and subsequent rebirth of the high-tech economy. He has covered the Microsoft anti-trust trial, the Napster saga, the contentious HP merger with Compaq, and the proliferation of digital consumer devices.
In spring of 2000, Stone reported in Newsweek on a new kind of entrepreneurial activity whose focal point was north, not south, of San Francisco: the increasingly visible sport of robotic combat. His investigation into the Bay Area origins of the enthusiastic community of robot builders and artists led to the writing of Gearheads.
Stone has also written for Wired, More, and the defunct high-tech magazine Industry Standard, among other publications. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, attorney Jennifer Granick, their cat, Mr. Boodles, and a variety of expensive and largely unnecessary robotic appliances and toys.
You can email him at: brad@gearheadsthebook.com or contact his literary agent, Frank R. Scatoni of Venture Literary.
