A number of the contributors whose work appears in Travel Weekly and on TravelWeekly.com are writers and photographers of international renown: They write best-selling books and are featured in the pages of the most widely read magazines in the world.
That portion of their work that appears exclusively in Travel Weekly becomes part of our Masters Series.
With the publication of "The Great Railway Bazaar" (Houghton Mifflin, 1975), Paul Theroux established himself as a travel essayist with an unmistakable eye, ear and voice. He has won numerous accolades and awards for his 33 published works of fiction and 18 nonfiction books; the most recent, "Deep South: Four Seasons on the Back Roads" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), reveals the texture of a region of America via road trips in each of the four seasons.
His articles have appeared in the magazines ranging from the New Yorker and Conde Nast Traveler to Architectural Digest and the Smithsonian. Three of his novels, "Mosquito Coast" among them, have been made into films.
In Monday's cover story, the travel writer describes his preparations for the trips that inform and inspire his books, then sits down with Editor in Chief Arnie Weissmann to discuss his life as an author and traveler. Theroux is joined in his Travel Weekly debut by photographer Steve McCurry, best-known for his haunting photo of a fair-eyed Afghan girl on the cover of National Geographic.
Among the writers who have appeared in our Masters Series:
- Pico Iyer, who has both authored critically acclaimed, best-selling books and also written for dozens of international periodicals; he has been an essayist for Time magazine since 1982 and is a former Harvard writing professor. His TED talks have been viewed 4 million times. He recently wrote about a Delta Airlines exhibit based on one of his books that was installed at a TED conference.
- Mark Edward Harris, whose award-winning photography has appeared in Vanity Fair, Life and Conde Nast Traveler, among others, turned his lens on North Korea in a Travel Weekly cover story.
- Patricia Schultz, author of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" and who, after the recent earthquake in Nepal, wrote movingly in Travel Weekly about her previous experiences there.
- Abe Peck, former dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a former associate editor at Rolling Stone magazine, who has explored topics for Travel Weekly from the problems facing gay travelers to the sometimes dicey political challenges of visiting Tibet.
The Masters -- Harris, Schultz and Peck are also contributing editors -- complement the largest, most experienced, award-winning staff in travel business journalism. The combination of the Masters and the daily publication of staff-written news, trends, research, analysis and opinion provide Travel Weekly readers with a critical business advantage: unrivaled industry insight.
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