2 Quotes & Sayings By Warren Alexander
Warren Alexander was born in San Leandro, California. He attended Berkeley High School and the University of California at Berkeley before enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war he returned to Berkeley and attended the University of California there, where he received a degree in zoology
He worked for a time as a freelance photographer specializing in wildlife photography, and also began to write a column for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1953 he published his first book, The Bay Bridge, a history of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. That same year he married Mary Lou Noyes, with whom he had two daughters, Pam and Tracy.
His second book was published in 1954: The Golden Gate Bridge. Other books followed: The Mission Houses of San Francisco (1955), Marin County (1956), Alcatraz (1959), A History of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (1960) and The Golden Gate Bridge (1960). Between 1961 and 1967 he wrote six books on the history of California's gold mining industry.
From 1967 to 1971 he was on leave while he served as supervising engineer for the new Alcatraz federal penitentiary at Fort Mason in San Francisco. He returned to his writing career with two more historical books on early California: The Story of Alcatraz (1971) and Exploring Alcatraz (1974). Warren Alexander died in 1996 after an illness.