Chicago born and Third Coast bred, East Coast educated and New Yorker at heart, Atherton Bartelby is a graphic designer, journalist, and photographer currently residing in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Atherton has been referred to in the past (by both enemies and friends) as a “runaway train”: strange, mystical, and extremely creative. He is the life of the party, always managing somehow to steer the topic of discussion to something absolutely bizarre. He delights in shock value, and tends to focus more on himself than on any prey in his field of vision, which is secondary to him, anyway, as men never seem to be lacking, whether or not they meet his admittedly rather high standards. He is simplistic about his desires and will settle for anything as long as he can be momentarily satiated.

This easy-to-get-hard-to-keep game makes him desired, but he is not the sort to stick around. In fact, he maintains an extremely exclusive circle of friends, and even they never seem to reach the deeper recesses of his mind. His stories are always changing (and are sometimes, like the majority of this short biography, which was written by his younger sister, not even his own); his goals and aspirations are never fixed; he guards his truth fiercely. His cunning makes him a good journalist and an even better thinker; his creativity makes him an award-winning designer.

Atherton thoroughly enjoys higher-end film of the Criterion variety, an engaging Triple Crown Of Horse Racing, reading any truly impressive writer, and thrilling chess games that allow him to conclude them with his flawless, trademarked razvyaska. He also appreciates the postal system, a proper opera, laughing up toward the sun with his close friends on the beach all day long, an emotionally moving ballet, the complete oeuvres of Nina Simone, H. L. Mencken and Paul van Dyk, and skinny-dipping in the ocean…at midnight.

He may generally always be seen around town in a car that someone else bought for him, and takes his frequent Café Américanos too hot, too sweet, and with a straw.