Chris Goodrich

Chris Goodrich (1956 - hanging in there) started out as a book critic in San Francisco, but soon realized you shouldn't criticize what you haven't done yourself. A year at Yale Law School gave him the opportunity to write a book about legal education, which became the first volume of an (unexpected) quartet. "Anarchy and Elegance" is about learning to do justice; "Roadster" is about building something significant, an automobile, with your own hands; "Faith is a Verb," concerning non-profit homebuilder Habitat for Humanity, is about trying to build justice one family at a time; and "Monkey Island," while fiction, is also fundamentally concerned with justice, craftsmanship, and personal commitment. When not leading build trips internationally with Habitat or working with Cambiando Vidas, a similar non-profit in the Dominican Republic, Goodrich lives in Santa Barbara, California. His three adult children, having spurned his advice to so something practical and remunerative, are all doing media work in New York City.