Bill McKibben (b. 1960) A Path of More Resistance   LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Bill McKibben (b. 1960)  Born in Palo Alto, California, McKibben graduated from Harvard University (B.A., 1982), and immediately was hired as an editor at the New Yorker magazine. At age twenty-six, dissatisfied with the frantic pace of urban life and work, he quit his job at the New Yorker and moved with his wife, writer Sue Halperin, to an isolated house (the nearest town is twelve miles away) in the Adirondack Mountains, in New York State. There, his concern over the growing threat to the earth's ecosystem posed by chemical pollution led him to the research and reflections described in his book The End of Nature (1989). Besides writing, McKibben spends much of his time hiking in the woods. He has said that he overcame a crisis in religious belief "to a greater or lesser degree by locating God in nature."