Matt Warshaw

Matt Warshaw, born in 1960, is a former professional surfer who became one of the leading historians of surfing as a writer and editor at Surfer magazine from 1984 to 1990 and as the author of many feature articles and large-format books on surfing culture and history. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, he was at his competitive peak the second-ranked amateur in California and the forty-third-ranked professional on the International Professional Surfers world tour in 1982. He earned a history degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and later curated the online Encyclopedia of Surfing and History of Surfing. As a boy he owned the first surfboard made under the Zephyr label and was one of the first Zephyr surf team riders.