BARRY LOPEZ is the author of Resistance, About This Life, Light Action in the Caribbean, Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, and nine other works of fiction and nonfiction. He is the coeditor, with Debra Gwartney, of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape, published by Trinity University Press. He has written for a wide range of magazines, including Harper’s, Granta, the Paris Review, the Georgia Review, National Geographic, and Outside, and he is a recipient of the John Burroughs Medal, the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations. For more information, please go to www.barrylopez.com.

BARRY MOSER is the prizewinning illustrator and designer of more than 300 books for children and adults. He has won numerous accolades for his work, including the prestigious National Book Award for Design and Illustration and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He is widely celebrated for his dramatic wood engravings for the only twentieth-century edition of the entire King James Bible illustrated by a single artist. His work is represented in collections throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Library of Congress. Moser is the Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art at Smith College and serves as printer to the college. He lives in western Massachusetts.

JAMES PERRIN WARREN is the S. Blount Mason, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University. His books include John Burroughs and the Place of Nature, Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America, and Walt Whitman’s Language Experiment.