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George M. Logan, raised eight miles from Mammoth Cave National Park, taught English for 40 years at Queen's University, Canada, and now lives in Toronto. He is a former editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and has written about Renaissance poetry and prose and has authored a history of the renowned Indiana University School of Music.
Review Quotes: "The book combines in an unusual and compelling way deeply personal memoir, local history, geography, geology, politics, and rich evocation of place and time."--Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, National Book Award, the Holberg Prize of the Government of Norway (often regarded as the humanities' Nobel); Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University