An avid skier for longer than he can remember (and still wishing he was better), Bill Triplett is a former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Variety. He has written about various destinations, from Sölden in Austria and Courchevel in France to Paris’s Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and the Beatles’ old haunts in Hamburg. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Salon, Everett Potter's Travel Report, Playboy, Smithsonian, Nature, and The Baltimore Sun, among other publications. He is author of one nonfiction book, co-author of another. His website is williamtriplett.com.