Michael S. Malone

Michael Shawn Malone (born January 21, 1954) is an American author, columnist, editor, investor, businessman, and television producer. He has been the host of several shows on PBS. , Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in Silicon Valley. In his professional writing he usually uses the name "Michael S. Malone", to distinguish his work from that of another U.S. author named Michael Malone, primarily a writer of fiction.

Early life and education Malone was born in 1954 in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria, a state in West Germany. His father was a U.S. Air Force officer who was dyslexic and who later worked as a freelance writer.

For his work breaking stories on toxic waste, drugs, sweatshops, and espionage, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize twice, and" (alleging liberal) "media bias in the recent" (2008) presidential election. The series, which aired in primetime, was nominated for an Emmy (27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards) in the category of "Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography", but did not win.

Scouting In August 2008, Malone led a group of twenty Boy Scouts and troop leaders from Troop 466 in the Sunnyvale, California area on a 56-mile trek on horseback from Fort Reno, Oklahoma to Enid, Oklahoma. Malone said that he wanted to find another unique experience, after having previously taken Scouts in his troop on a 192-mile hike across England.

Publications The Craft of Professional Writing: A Guide for Amateur and Professional Writers, Anthem Press, July 2018, Four Percent: The Extraordinary Story of Exceptional American Youth, Windrush Publishers, 2015, Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company, Harper Business, July 15, 2014, The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory, St. Martin's Press, 2012, No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling, with Tom Hayes, Penguin/Portfolio Hardcover, 2009, The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You, Crown Business, 2009, Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company, Portfolio Hardcover, 2007, The Valley of Heart's Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963–2001, Wiley, 2002, Betting It All: The Entrepreneurs of Technology, Wiley, 2001, Big Issues: The Examined Life in a Digital Age, Wiley, 2001, Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane, Aurum Press Ltd., 2000, Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower, by Leif Edvinsson and Michael S. Malone, Harpercollins, 1997, Virtual Selling: Going Beyond the Automated Sales Force to Achieve Total Sales Quality, by Michael S. Malone and Thomas M. Siebel, Free Press, 1996, The Microprocessor: A Biography, Springer, 1995, The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century, by William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone, Harpercollins, 1992, Going Public: MIPS Computer and the Entrepreneurial Dream, Harper Perennial, 1992, The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley, Doubleday, 1985,