Scott Russell Sanders
Scott Russell Sanders is an essayist, fiction writer and memoirist who taught English at Indiana University for nearly forty years. He has published over twenty books, including, most recently, the spiritual memoir A Private History of Awe, and A Conservationist Manifesto, which is a discussion of the current environmental dilemma. Having recently retired in 2009, Sanders now lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife, Ruth.
Speaker Links
Visit Scott Russell Sanders's website.
Read an interview with Sanders about A Conservationist Manifesto.
Read Sanders's essay, "Wilderness as a Sabbath for the Land."
Read another essay by Sanders "Under the Influence."
Read Sander's essay, "Mind in the Forest," which appeared in the November/December issue of Orion magazine.
Read a transcript of Sanders's keynote address “The Geography of Somewhere,” which he read at the Civic Tourism conference in Prescott, Arizona.




