Rolf Potts is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage. We do not exclusively represent Rolf Potts or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Rolf Potts or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, the New York Times Magazine, and the digital versions of The Nation and The Atlantic.Ĭontact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Rolf Potts and other top speakers and celebrities.Īll American Speakers is a 'buyers agent' and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. His travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside,, , The Guardian, and World Hum. Potts has written two books, Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn't Go There. His newest book is 'Marco Polo Didn't Go There.' Rolf is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of independent travel, and his book on the subject, Vagabonding has been through twenty-one printings and translated into several foreign languages. Potts has reported from over sixty countries for dozens of major venues, including National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Outside,, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. He currently teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University. Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

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