Stuart McElderry

Stuart McElderry was born in San Jose, California in 1965 but spent most of his childhood and teenage years living in the Sierra Nevada foothills between Auburn and Colfax. An avid reader, writer, and athlete, Stuart graduated from Placer High School in 1984 and earned a football scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, where he played left tackle on the Cal football team and earned a bachelor's degree in 1989. He then earned a Master's Degree in history from San Francisco State University and in 1998 completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oregon. While a graduate student, Stuart published an article in The Oregon Historical Quarterly entitled "Vanport Conspiracy Rumors and Social Relations in Portland, 1940-1950" (99:2 Summer 1998). From 1998 to 2000, Stuart was Assistant Professor of History at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. In the summer of 2000, he and his family relocated to northern California so Stuart could take a job teaching history at Las Positas College in Livermore. Stuart is married to Elizabeth McElderry. He and Elizabeth have five children and one grandchild. THE BARCELONA FILE is his debut novel. He has several works in progress including "The War Work," a conspiracy/mystery set in San Francisco in 1945 and a Lee Tomlinson sequel tentatively titled "The Portland Manuscript." Facebook/TheBarcelonaFile; Twitter@BarcelonaFile