Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand
Brand at home in California, December 2010
Born	(1938-12-14) December 14, 1938 (age 78) Rockford, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Writer, editor, entrepreneur
Known for	Whole Earth Catalog The WELL Long Now Foundation
Spouse(s)	Lois Jennings (1966–1973) Ryan Phelan (1983–present)
Website	sb.longnow.org

Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

Brand attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied biology at Stanford University, graduating in 1960. He was married to Lois Jennings, an Ottawa Native American and mathematician. As a soldier in the U.S. Army, he was a parachutist and taught infantry skills; he later expressed the view that his experience in the military had fostered his competence in organizing. A civilian again in 1962, he studied design at San Francisco Art Institute, photography at San Francisco State College, and participated in a legitimate scientific study of then-legal LSD, in Menlo Park, California.

Brand has lived in California since the 1960s. He and his second wife live on Mirene, a 64-foot (20 m)-long working tugboat. Built in 1912, the boat is moored in a former shipyard in Sausalito, California. He works in Mary Heartline, a grounded fishing boat about 100 yards (91 m) away. A favorite item of his is a table on which Otis Redding is said to have written “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay”. (Brand acquired it from an antiques dealer in Sausalito.)