About the Author

Robert Root has long been immersed in the nonfiction of place. He is the editor of Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and the author of twenty books including Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, named a Michigan Notable Book in 2004, the memoir Happenstance, and the craft studies E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist and The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction. Root teaches nonfiction in Ashland University's MFA Program in Creative Writing and for the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. He and his wife live in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Reviews

Root's celebration of pristine places is a valentine to a small region that inspired giants of conservation.(Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Review, September/October 2017)