DANIEL H. PINK

Daniel H. Pink, a Contributing Editor at Fast Company, is at work on a book about the free-agent economy. The book was inspired in part by his 1998 Fast Company cover story, "Free Agent Nation," which chronicled the growing ranks of Americans who have abandoned traditional jobs to work on their own — and which touched off a firestorm of comment. One newspaper called free agency a "silent revolution" and Pink "a flesh-and-blood example of the capitalist New Man." The New Yorker called Pink's article "the most eloquent manifesto" for the end of loyalty in America. Pink's book will analyze the free-agent phenomenon in greater detail and will examine its implications for American work and life.

When he's not traveling the country learning about free agency, Pink writes frequently about business, technology, and pop culture. His articles, op-eds, and book reviews have appeared in dozens of national newspapers and magazines — including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, George, and Salon.

He's also Publisher of FreeAgentNation.Com, his own noncommercial website for freelancers, solo entrepreneurs, and independent professionals. And he's affiliated with two Internet start-ups addressing the free-agent market, serving as an Editor-at-Large for FreeAgent.Com and as a columnist for Guru.Com.

Before becoming a free agent himself, Pink worked in the trenches of American politics. From 1995 to 1997, he was chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. Prior to working at the White House, Pink served as speechwriter and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich. Before joining the Clinton-Gore Administration, he was an economic policy aide in the U.S. Senate, and a policy and communications operative on several losing political campaigns.

Pink received a B.A., with honors in linguistics, from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. To his lasting joy and his grandmother's lingering dismay, he has never practiced law.

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