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Robert W.
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In a career spanning more than half a century, travel writer and columnist Robert W. Bone has been a successful writer, author, editor and photographer in the U.S. and abroad. He began newspaper work while still in high school and college. Then, as a young lieutenant, he edited Army training manuals and lesson plans.
Bob Bone has been employed by the Buffalo (New York) Courier-Express, the Middletown (New York) Daily Record, the San Juan (Puerto Rico) Star, the New York Post, the Honolulu Advertiser, and the London Bureau of United Press International.
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He was editor-in-chief of Brazilian Business magazine in Rio de Janeiro, news editor of Popular Photography magazine in New York, and a picture editor on the staff of Time-Life Books. His first free-lancing stint was at the 1958 World Fair in Brussels. He was a stringer and did radio spots for NBC News in South America and later was a stringer for Time magazine in Hawaii.
In 1968 Bob began to concentrate on travel subjects when he joined the late Temple Fielding, then known as the dean of guidebook writers. Headquartered in Mallorca, he worked on the annual Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe and other books. He was working for Fielding when his employer made the cover of Time magazine. He was also mentioned in the article.
Although he travels frequently, Bob Bone has lived mainly in Hawaii since 1971. He is well-known for the Maverick Guide series of books he began in 1977. The Maverick Guide to Hawaii has been published annually since then. He also wrote The Maverick Guide to Australia and the Maverick Guide to New Zealand.
Working with his wife, Sara, Bob also wrote Fielding's Alaska and the Yukon, published in 1990. Although now out of print, the Alaska/Yukon book received glowing reviews, and it remains a good basic guide to that U.S. state and Canadian territory.
His articles and photographs have also appeared in many national magazines, including Travel-Holiday, Travel & Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, and the New Yorker. He is also Hawaii travel correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. In 1991, one of his articles made the "main sheet" -- page one of the first section of the Tribune.
Besides the Chicago Tribune, many other respected newspapers carry his travel stories on Hawaii and other world destinations. These include the Boston Globe, the (Bergen) New Jersey Record, the Miami Herald, the Toronto Star, the Dallas Morning News, the Saint Petersburg Times, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and others. He has also written a series of travel columns for America Online, and he turns out a monthly column for Travel Weekly.
In 1990, he was the first alumnus to be inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame of his alma mater, Bowling Green State University. His biography has been carried for several years in Who's Who in America.
Bob Bone was also one of the first published writers to fully embrace the computer age. As far back as 1982, before the advent of the internet and email, he was already transmitting stories by direct modem to newspapers and magazines. He recalls that he had to convince some editors that he could do it before they would let him try. Today, of course, he also transmits his color photographs to clients via e-mail, and maintains special web sites where they can download his images in high resolution.
Bob says he has three home towns, having grown up in Gary, Indiana; Pekin, Illinois; and Bowling Green, Ohio. When not traveling, he is at home today in Maunawili, a suburb of Honolulu. He turned 75 in 2007 -- but insists he doesn't look it.
The Historical Bone: A more light-hearted look at the past. (Photos and mutable background music.)
Strictly family stuff. The ancestral Bones and offspring (also with optional music).
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