Robert Root
Robert Root is the author of two books on writing, The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction (2007) and Wordsmithery: A Guide to Working on Writing (2nd Ed., 1998), two studies of nonfiction writers, E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist (1999) and Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing (1991), and two works of creative nonfiction, Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale (2003) and After Isabella: A Flatlander on the Front Range (forthcoming, 2009).
He is the editor of Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place (2007) and the co-editor (with Michael Steinberg) of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (4th ed, 2007). His essay "A Double Life" won the 2006 Donald Murray Prize; two essays of place, "Knowing Where You've Been" and "The Pattern of Life Indelible" have been cited in the Notable Essays list of Best American Essays 2004 and 2007.
This instructor has the following classes scheduled:
Making Memoir - starting 06/07/2008
Ratcheting Up Your Prose - starting 06/16/2008
Why Don’t You Collage That? Or, The Art of the Asterisk - starting 06/11/2008