Biff Thuringer

Biff Thuringer is the stage and pen name of Stephen Hopkins. During a long and extremely checkered career, he has risen to the upper middle of a number of unrelated professions, jettisoning each one as aversion to success and a general sense of disgust crept into his conflicted heart. He has been a social worker, computer systems analyst, recording artist, musician, journalist and publisher, as well as a New York City bicycle messenger, concert promoter and pioneering pedicab driver. He was an investigative reporter, executive editor of three newspaper chains and a number of satirical publications, wrote award-winning commentary, and toured America with the Neville Brothers and Al Green. He has been a traveling cameraman for a news website, operated an urban farmers’ market and helped found a successful private school. He has semi-retired to a life of raising children, writing, making music and art, and helping people, whether they deserve it or not. Wasted is his first full-length novel.