ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© Jill Enfield
Steve Ettlinger is a semi-retired author, editor, and book producer. Since 1985 he has written nine nonfiction books and has helped create over forty.
Ettlinger’s books, listed below, explain complex and daunting but common things like wine, artificial food ingredients, ethnic cuisines, beer, and DIY hardware.
A selection of just some of those titles accounts for over a million copies sold; the bestselling series Wine for Dummies has surpassed one million in all its iterations. His eighth book is Twinkie, Deconstructed, which describes where artificial food ingredients come from and how they are made. His subsequent book, Ingredients: A Visual Exploration, incorporates some of that material along with extraordinary photos of additives.
Ettlinger is a successful lecturer and a veteran of dozens of TV, radio, web, and print interviews. He has appeared on The Today Show (three times), CBS This Morning, ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Fox News, Montel, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The Food Network (many times), and dozens of other national, syndicated, and local television and radio shows. TV appearances for Twinkie, Deconstructed, including an ABC Nightline feature, can be seen here.
When Twinkie, Deconstructed was published Ettlinger was on the national lecture circuit, speaking at Google headquarters, various universities and colleges, and professional conventions around the country.
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“Steve's presentation at Google was one of the season's most well-attended talks. Steve's wealth of knowledge, wit, and sense of humor make for a great presentation for any audience, large or small” - Google
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Ettlinger has contributed to various web sites, was an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post and The Daily Beast, and has written Op-Ed pieces for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Sun. Ettlinger is a former president of the American Book Producers Association (ABPA). He was named 2012 Tech Mentor-in-Residence at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Prior to becoming a book producer and writer, Ettlinger was Associate Picture Editor at GEO Magazine and was a photo editor for two of the Day In The Life projects, Australia and Spain. During this time he taught at The New School, The School of Visual Arts, and Fordham University’s Graduate Program in Public Communication.
Partial Book List
BOOKS WRITTEN:
INGREDIENTS: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives and 25 Food Products, photos by Dwight Eschliman, text by Steve Ettlinger. ReganArts, 2015. IACP Cookbook Judges’ Choice Award.
Twinkie, Deconstructed, by Steve Ettlinger. Hudson Street Press (Penguin, hardcover), 2007; Plume (paperback), 2008. Available in all formats. Contact HSP for book rights information at 212-366-2245. Television rights available (contact Ettlinger).
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores, by Steve Ettlinger. Now available as an e-Book. Originally published by Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988 (hardcover), 1993 (trade paperback), 1998 (revised trade paperback). Literary Guild. Corporate editions. Reprinted as The Hardware Cylcopedia by Running Press, 2003. Published as a bindup with The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Garden Centers by Courage, 2002. Excerpts published as The Pocket Guide to Nuts and Bolts by Running Press, 2006. Revised and published with color photography as The All New Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores (Cool Springs Press, June, 2017). For a fun aspect of the book, click here.
The Kitchenware Book, by Steve Ettlinger. Irena Chalmers, Research Consultant. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award nominee. Reprinted by Barnes & Noble Books, 2001.
Beer for Dummies, by Marty Nachel with Steve Ettlinger. IDG Books Worldwide, 1996; 2nd Edition 2012. Various foreign rights sold (Norwegian, Indian, and even German).
The Complete, Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Marine Supply Stores, by Steve Ettlinger. Hearst Marine Books, 1995.
The Restaurant Lover's Companion, by Steve Ettlinger with Melanie Falick. Addison-Wesley, 1994. Quality Paperback Book Club.
Don’t Pick Up the Baby or You’ll Spoil the Child and Other Old Wives Tales About Pregnancy and Parenting, by Steve Ettlinger & Colleen Davis Gardephe. Chronicle Books, 1993; Barnes & Noble Books, 2001.
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Garden Centers (Except the Plants), by Steve Ettlinger, research by Robert Coleman, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. Book of the Month, Rodale, and Garden Book Clubs.
BOOKS EDITED AND PRODUCED OR AGENTED*:
Popular reference books
Beer Across America: A Regional Guide to Brewpubs and Microbreweries, by Marty Nachel. Storey Communications, 1996. Corporate sales. Limited, non-exclusive World Wide Web rights sold.
Wine for Dummies, by Mary Ewing Mulligan MW and Ed McCarthy. IDG Books Worldwide, 1995. French (!), Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and many other foreign rights sold; Doubleday Book Clubs. James Beard Award nominee. Revised periodically; 5th edition, 2012. Over ONE MILLION of this and related titles sold as of 2012. Over a dozen versions of this book appear in compendiums and specialized formats such as an iPhone app.
Wine Style, by Mary Ewing Mulligan MW and Ed McCarthy. Wiley, 2005.*
Champagne for Dummies, by Ed McCarthy. IDG Books, 1999.*
French Wine for Dummies and Italian Wine for Dummies, by Mary Ewing Mulligan MW and Ed McCarthy. IDG Books, 2001.*
Wine Buying Companion for Dummies, by Mary Ewing Mulligan MW and Ed McCarthy. IDG Books, 1997.*
Little Dummies Book of Red Wine, Little Dummies Book of White Wine, by Mary Ewing Mulligan MW and Ed McCarthy. IDG Books, Worldwide, 1996.*
Fun books
The Microsloth Joke Book, The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt, and Tales from the Tech Support Line (humor), by David Pogue. Berkley Pub., 1997-8.*
The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes, by Phil Farrand. Dell, 1997.
The Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, by Phil Farrand. Dell, 1996.
The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers, by Phil Farrand. Dell, 1994. British, German, and audio rights sold.The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers (Vol. One), by Phil Farrand, Dell, 1993, and ...Volume Two, Dell, 1995. British, German, and audio rights sold.
Hard Drive, by David Pogue (mass market novel) Berkley Pub. Co., Diamond Imprint, 1993-5. Japanese and Korean rights sold. Film and computer game rights optioned. Reprinted under Ace Imprint, 1995, 1996. New York TimesNotable book of the Year.
Photo books
Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew, by Geoffrey Clifford (photography). Chronicle Books, 1989. Communication Arts Award of Excellence for Design.
A Time That Was: Irish Moments, by Jill Freedman (photography). Friendly Press, 1987.*
(Note: Ettlinger acted as agent for many of the authors of the books he produced, and only those books that relate directly to the original produced book are listed here. Books for which he was agent only are starred.)
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