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Robert Root

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Robert Root

Robert Root, author of Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, 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 courses in nonfiction writing and editing family manuscripts for the Loft Literacy Center in Minneapolis and the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.

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  • Environment and Nature

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