Ray Edinger

Author Ray Edinger was born in Upstate New York and raised on Long Island. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he earned his bachelors degree. Following graduation, he spent the next thirty-six years as a scientist in the field of photographic and digital imaging science.

Ray is an avid collector of rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on exploration in the Arctic. His collecting interest ultimately expanded to speaking engagements and authorship, with articles in Mercator's World and Western New York Heritage and he has contributed to the PBS NOVA presentation "Arctic Passage: Trials on the Ice." He has published on his book collecting experience and its relation to Arctic exploration in Biblio magazine and Journal of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. His lectures on Arctic history include speaking engagements at the Westport (Mass.) Historical Society and the Bibliophile Society of Rochester (N.Y.). Besides publishing in the Arctic and book-collecting genres, Ray has also published in a variety of technical journals: Imaging Technology, Applied Optics, Imaging Science, International Journal of Climatology, and Headache, the Journal of Head and Face Pain.

He lives in Rochester, New York, where he is President Emeritus of the Bibliophile Society of Rochester and a Trustee of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. Ray was the 2003 recipient of the Bibliophile Society of Rochester “Book Person-of-the-Year Award” in recognition of his significant contributions to the Rochester book scene.