About Len Edgerly

Jul 25, 2008

Len Edgerly, a graduate of Harvard College (1972) and the Harvard Business School (1977) has worked as a business journalist at The Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, editor of an energy magazine in Casper, Wyoming, and an executive at a natural gas company based in Denver.  After early retirement, he earned a Masters in Fine Arts in poetry from Bennington College and has served on arts policy boards, including the Western States Arts Federation, the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, and the New England Foundation for the Arts.

In 2010 with Ken Clark, he founded E-Books for Troops, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which distributed more than 1,000 new and used Kindles to U.S. Soldiers on active duty overseas. The program was concluded in early 2015.

Past guests on the show have included Jeff Bezos, Margaret Atwood, James Fallows, Sam Tanenhaus, Pamela Paul, Donald Hall, Sanibel FL City Manager Dana Souza, and Sanibel's retired manager Judith Zimomra.

Len and his wife reside in Sanibel, Florida, and spend part of each year in New England.

In addition to the long-running Kindle Chronicles podcast, Len hosts a new show, Sanibel Journal, and an Alexa flash briefing, Morning Journal. His essays can be found at Medium.