Chris Bachelder is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Tech and the University of Florida at Gainesville. Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College, North Carolina Governor's School West, New Mexico State University, and The University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers, along with Sabina Murray, Noy Holland and Anthony Giardina. He currently teaches at the University of Cincinnati. Bachelder's e-book, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, was McSweeney's first career-development e-book. By 2004, more than 45,000 people had downloaded the novel. 

January 1st, 1971 in (Age 53)