Bob Baron is a writer, historian and the founder and president of Fulcrum Publishing. The Colorado-based publishing company, founded in 1984, edits, produces and sells quality books to an international market.

Fulcrum publishes in the fields of gardening, Native American writing, travel narratives and guide books, essays of place, history, biography and the world of ideas, natural history and the environment, books for children and teachers.

Among the company's 400+ authors are Craig Barnes, Laurie David, Vine Deloria, Gary Hart, Jill Ker Conway, Thomas Locker, Wilma Mankiller, George McGovern and Marianne Wallace. Fulcrum's first novel, Broken Trail by Alan Geoffrin, was made into a television miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Hayden Church.

Baron is the author or editor of 25 books, including Pioneers and Plodders, The American Entrepreneurial Spirit, What Was It Like, Orville: Observations on the Early Space Program, Soul of America and Hudson: The Story of a River.

Baron has more than 25 years experience in the computer and electronics industry as an engineer, an entrepreneur and an executive. He served as program manager for the Mariner II (Venus) and the Mariner IV (Mars) on-board space computers. He managed an integrated circuit laboratory and was worldwide manager for Honeywell's minicomputer business.

In 1971 Baron founded Prime Computer, which became one of the Fortune 500 largest American companies, and was its first president and chief executive officer, building an international business.