Daniel Suelo, now 50 years old, who has lived – to all appearances sanely, even joyfully –  for over a decade without money, credit, barter, or government hand-outs, fulfilling a vision of the good life inspired by the teachings of Jesus, Buddha, and the Hindu wandering monks known as Sadhus.   In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his last thirty dollars in a phone booth and has not earned, received, or spent a single dollar since. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man, Mark Sundeen's THE MAN WHO QUIT MONEY is a provocative, riveting and impossible to shrug off portrait of one man’s wholehearted quest to realize his unique vision—a vision that makes us question the decisions we all make, by default or by design, about how we live.
 
“Mark Sundeen's astonishing and unsettling book goes directly to the largest questions about how we live and what we have lost in a culture obsessed with money. Sundeen tells the story of a gentle and generous man who sought the good life by deciding to live without it. What's most unsettling and astonishing is that he appears to have succeeded."  --William Greider, author of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

"This is a beautiful, thoughtful and wonderful book. I suspect I may find myself thinking about it every day for the rest of my life." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Last American Man

 Mark Sundeen is an award-winning writer whose work appears in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, McSweeney’s and The Believer. He is the author of the books Car Camping (HarperCollins, 2000) and The Making of Toro (Simon & Schuster, 2003), and co-author of North By Northwestern (St. Martin’s, 2010), which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Sundeen was born in Harbor City, California, in 1970. After graduating from Stanford University, Sundeen spent ten years in Moab, Utah, sometimes homeless, working odd jobs, river guiding, and leading Outward Bound wilderness courses. It was here, in 1993 while working as a short order cook, that he first met Daniel Suelo. Sundeen holds a masters in writing from the University of Southern California, and has taught at the MFA writing programs at the University of New Mexico and Western Connecticut State University. Since moving to Montana in 2005, he splits his time between Missoula and Moab.