Adam C. Engst is the editor and publisher of TidBITS, a free electronic newsletter distributed weekly to several hundred thousand readers on the worldwide computer networks.
After graduating from Cornell University with a double-major in Hypertextual Fiction and Classics, he worked as an independent consultant in Ithaca, New York, where he started TidBITS in April of 1990.
He now lives in the Puget Sound area, with his wife, Tonya, and cats, Tasha and Cubbins, but seems to spend most of his time corresponding via electronic mail with friends and associates around the globe.
After writing the first edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh for Hayden Books (now updated to the third edition), he was somehow rooked into co-authoring Internet Explorer Kit for Macintosh with Bill Dickson, and Internet Starter Kit for Windows with Cory Low and Mike Simon, now in the second edition.
He has written for MacUser, appeared on numerous television news shows, including the NBC Nightly News, and been featured on various radio shows, including National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation.
