Celeste Lipow MacLeod is the author of Horatio Alger, Farewell: The End of the American Dream,* a book about internal American migrants of the 1970s, young people from working-class homes who came to California on the heels of the affluent Hippies. She has published articles in the Nation, Library Journal, Los Angeles Times and many other publications.

After growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, MacLeod earned Bachelor and Masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and did graduate work at Columbia University in New York. She lives in Berkeley where she has worked as an archivist. For a few decades, volunteer projects she was active in—about civil liberties, prisoners’ access to legal materials, and the homeless—were reflected in her writing; for instance, the experience of helping start an organization that brought services to down and out young people on Berkeley’s streets and serving on its Board led to articles and a book about them.

Travel and living abroad have increased MacLeod’s interest in other cultures, world history and immigrants and refugees. After living at the International Houses at Berkeley and New York as a student, she spent a year and half traveling around the world, staying with friends from International House in India and Japan. She has lived in Copenhagen, London and Rome, has traveled widely, including trips to Australia, and maintains friendships with people in several countries.

MacLeod has been a Writing Fellow at the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and the Blue Mountain Center in upstate New York.

Contact E-Mail: macleod@multiethnicaustralia.com

* Excerpts from reviews of Horatio Alger,Farewell:

“...manages to give the failures and frustrations of the shrinking American job market a recognizable human face...MacLeod’s voice is a compassionate cry for intelligent policy.”
Theodore Roszak,
San Francisco Chronicle

“She is certainly correct...that society could do a lot to make life better for these people if it chose to do so.”
Lester Thurow,
New York Times Book Review

“A valuable source of ideas and information for politicians, social scientists, and undergraduates concerned with a prudent and humane use of human resources.”
Choice
(Book selection journal for academic and special libraries)