ARCHIE SATTERFIELD

Archie Satterfield grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. After serving four years in the Navy, he attended St. Louis University and the University of Missouri before moving to Seattle in 1959 and receiving a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Washington. He lived in the Pacific Northwest many years working as a reporter, editor and columnist on the Seaside (Oregon) Signal, Longview (Washington) Daily News, and the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He was founding editor of the regional magazine, Northwest Living, and edited the Museum of Flight News and Enetai, a magazine for riders of the Washington State Ferries.

Since 1987 he has been a full time writer of books and articles on history, travel and popular culture. He also writes commissioned histories for clients such as Alaska Airlines, Tillamook Cheese, Crescent Foods and the City of Edmonds, Washington. He recently completed a history of Trillium Corporation in Bellingham, Washington.

His 40-plus books have been published by a variety of national and regional publishing houses. Some have been in print more than thirty years.

His history and travel articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including The History Channel Magazine, Porthole, Travel Holiday, Sunterre magazine, Missouri Life, Robb Report, Mobil Motorist, Sunset, Hong Kong Tatler, Volta ao Mundo (Portugal), and numerous North American newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Arizona Daily Star and the Toronto Globe and Mail.

The year he turned 70 he was diagnosed as being dyslexic, which came as a complete surprise to him even though it should not have. After all, he was unable to diagram sentences in grade school and equally unable to learn a foreign language. Nor could he do any mathematics at all (arithemetic apparently requires another set of mental muscles), and he could not learn to play musical instruments. Of these three areas of incompetence, he loved writing and music the most and he assumes he will always wonder what role dyslexia played in making those skills so attractive.