Edward Hoagland is one of the best contemporary American essayists, known for his nature and travel writing. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper's and the New York Times Book Review. The author of twenty books and the general editor for the Penguin Nature Library, he won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for the novel Cat Man and was elected to the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in Martha's Vineyard and Bartown, Vermont.