Beau Friedlander

Beau Friedlander is an American writer, publisher, and media consultant. He was the founder of Context Books, an award-winning small press, and editor-in-chief at Air America and has garnered notoriety as a provocateur for progressive causes.

First published in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, most notably in the May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Poetry edited by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (under the name E.B. Friedlander), Friedlander’s writing has appeared in many publications, including the Huffington Post, where he is a regular contributor.

Beau Friedlander received a B.A. in Literature and Languages from Bennington College, a M.A. in English Romanticism from Oxford University and a M. Phil. in Comparative Literature and Scandinavian Studies from Columbia University.

In 1998, Friedlander started Context Books, an independent press. He was twenty-seven.

In 1999, Friedlander and Context Books came to public attention when he acquired a manuscript from Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The book, in which Kaczynski argued that he was not insane, as his family had claimed during his trial, was ready to be published by Context Books when Kaczynski refused to paraphrase some letters which he did not own the copyright to. The book was never published because of these copyright issues.

Context Books published several award-winning works of literary fiction by authors including David Means, David Marshall Chan, and Daniel Quinn. Nonfiction authors included Derrick Jensen and John Bonifaz. The publishing house won several national awards, including The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2000) for Assorted Fire Events.The New York Times singled out two anti-war books published by the publisher that "emerged from, and then codified opposition to the war in Iraq." War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know by William Rivers Pitt was an international bestseller.

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