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.

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Stillness

To keep spirits barraged by our culture refreshed, we may need to spend "long spells in a wakeful hush."