Scott Russell Sanders
Scott Russell Sanders, novelist and essayist, is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. His recent books include Crawdad Creek (1999), The Force of Spirit (2000), and A Private History of Awe (2007). Sanders is a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1971. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon and MIT. He is married with two children, Eva and Jesse.
Breaking the Spell of Money
How did material wealth become more important than life itself?
Mind in the Forest
Very old trees can teach us some things about ourselves.
Stillness
To keep spirits barraged by our culture refreshed, we may need to spend "long spells in a wakeful hush."
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