Works
Lineage: Reading the Past to Reach the Present
Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017. 250 pp.
Happenstance
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale
LIncoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 6th Edition
New York, NY: Pearson, 2012.
E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1999.
ALSO BY ROBERT ROOT
Books:
- Critical Essays on E. B. White (editor). New York, NY: G. K. Hall, 1994.
- Diaries of an Isle Royale Fisherman by Elling Seglem (editor w/ Jill Burkland). Houghton, MI: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 2002.
- How to Develop Your Personality by Betsy Root (editor). Glimmerglass Editions, 2012.
- The Island Within Us: Isle Royale Artists-in-Residence 1991-1998 (editor w/ Jill Burkland). Houghton, MI: Isle Royale Natural History Association, 2000.
- The Rhetorics of Popular Culture: Advertising, Advocacy, Entertainment. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1987.
- Thomas Southerne. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
- Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching (editor w/ Michael Steinberg). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1996.
- “’Time By Moments Steals Away’”: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass (editor). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
- Wordsmithery: A Guide to Working at Writing. 1st Ed, New York: Macmillan, 1993; 2nd Ed, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
- Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.