![]() photo by Reg Saner Paperback edition of The Nonfictionist's Guide coming in August 2008. 2006 DONALD MURRAY PRIZE WINNER The Donald Murray Prize, awarded by the Special Interest Group in Creative Nonfiction of the National Council of Teachers of English and including an honorarium of $500 sponsored by Thomson/ MICHIGAN WRITERS SERIES Hear audio recordings from the Vincent Voice Library of an interview, a reading, and a Q & A at Michigan State University December 7, 2001. |
BiographyNEW ITEMS OF INTERESTTeaching: In Summer 2008 Bob Root will begin teaching as a Visiting Adjunct Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. The program focuses on both poetry and creative nonfiction. The 2008 Summer Residency takes place July 13-July 26. Publishing: In Spring 2009 the University of Oklahoma Press will publish After Isabella: Notes on Coming to Colorado. The fifth edition of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/ Bob Root (Robert L. Root Jr.) believes he has been a writer since he was around eight years old, when he came home with a friend from a showing of Superman and the Mole Men, pried open the lock on his mother’s typewriter, and created a series of very short adventures about Tiger Boy. Since then, his life and career have centered on his writing, his study of the way other writers compose, and his teaching of writers and writing teachers. His bachelor’s degree from State University College, Geneseo, New York, was in English education and theater and his graduate degrees from the University of Iowa were in English literature, but he also did post-graduate work in composition and rhetoric before beginning twenty-eight years of teaching at Central Michigan University. There he taught courses in composition and rhetoric, nonfiction, editing, English education, literature, and media. He retired from full time teaching in 2004 to devote more time to writing creative nonfiction and to writing about it. A frequent presenter on creative nonfiction and composition at national, international, and regional conferences, his scholarship and teaching led to many articles and books. They include: a book for writers, Wordsmithery, which went through two editions; a book for teachers of writing (co-edited with Michael Steinberg), Those Who Do Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching; and an anthology of creative nonfiction (also co-edited with Michael Steinberg) The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/ His creative nonfiction includes essays of place published in literary journals such as North Dakota Quarterly, Rivendell, Ecotone, The Concord Saunterer, and divide; “Knowing Where You’ve Been,” in Ascent, was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2004. As an essayist he has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Isle Royale National Park; his anthology co-edited with Jill Burkland, The Island Within Us: Isle Royale Artists-in-Residence 1991-1998, won the 2001 Excellence in Media Award from the National Parks Service. He edited and contributed to Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place, an anthology of essays and writers’ commentaries on their composing published in 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press. His first full-length work of creative nonfiction, Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale, was named a Michigan Notable Book in 2004 by the Library of Michigan. Bob Root is currently the Interview/ |
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