Robert Root

Robert Root's narratives of history and place include Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, and the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place. He is the editor of the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-editor of the anthology The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. He has published and...See more

Robert Root's narratives of history and place include Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now, and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth, and the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place. He is the editor of the anthology Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and co-editor of the anthology The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. He has published and presented widely on creative nonfiction.His essay "A Double Life," published in Writing on the Edge, won the 2007 Donald Murray Award for Best Essay on Writing and/or Teaching. "Postscript to a Postscript to 'The Ring of Time'," published in The Pinch, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Council of Wisconsin Writers Short Nonfiction Award. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Isle Royale National Park, and a visiting writer at the Kachemak Bay, Sanibel Island, and Geneva Writers Conferences. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Further information is available at www.rootwriting.com. See less