6 Facts About John Perry Barlow

1. In 2014, John Perry Barlow suffered the loss of Buck, his beloved Maine Coon cat that he believed to be a bodhisattva; the cat had many fans on social media.

2. On September 8, 2014, John Perry Barlow was the first speaker in the Art, Activism, and Technology: The 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement colloquium series at University of California, Berkeley.

3. In 1990, John Perry Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with fellow digital-rights activists John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor.

4. In 2012, John Perry Barlow was one of the founders of the EFF-related Freedom of the Press Foundation and served on its board of directors until his death.

5. In 1996, John Perry Barlow was invited to speak about his work in cyberspace to a middle school classroom at North Shore Country Day School.

6. Prior to receiving his degree, John Perry Barlow was admitted to Harvard Law School and contracted to write a novel by Farrar, Straus and Giroux at the behest of his mentor, the autodidactic Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and historian Paul Horgan.