When longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin luminaries who were deeply rooted in
Walt Whitman’s meditation on time is the undercurrent running through Postscripts, a series of reflections on finding one’s place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges acr
A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of
As a vital and growing literary genre, nonfiction impacts bestseller lists, writing programs, writers’ workshops, and academic conferences on creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and literature. In
Writing for both readers and writers, Root (English, emeritus, Central Michigan University) offers a lively exploration of the elements of contemporary creative nonfiction and suggests imaginative app
