Harriet Baskas is a writer and an award-winning radio producer. She reviews airports for Expedia.com and is a regular travel columnist for USATODAY.com, writing about airports and travel etiquette. She is the author of Stuck at the Airport (2001, Fireside/Simon & Schuster).
Her other books include:
Washington Curiosities, 1 (2004, The Globe Pequot Press)Oregon Curiosities, 1 (2007, GPP)
Museums of the Northwest (1999, Sasquatch Books)
Atomic Marbles and Branding Irons:A Guide to Museums, Collections, and Roadside Curiosities in Washington and Oregon,with Adam Woog (1993, Sasquatch Books)
Baskas is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, reporting most often on museums and unusual collections and is currently finishing up a twenty-six-part series, The Hidden Treasures Radio Project, all about objects and collections in museums that the public rarely gets to see.