Scott Russell Sanders

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS teaches literature and intellectual history at Indiana University. He is the author of ten books, including The Paradise of Bombs, which appeared earlier this year and won the Associated Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction. Two of his novels, The Invisible Company and The Engineer of Beasts, will appear in 1988. Quarriers" and "Stone Towns and the Country Between," both of which were listed among "Notable Essays of 1985," have been collected in Stone Country, a book about southern Indiana's limestone region.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 317-8). Ticknor & Fields.