![]() ![]() She is the author of Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. My wife, Crystal, is a professor of English and film studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. I published A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy in 2007, a study of Southerners who supported the Union during the war. Living less that an hour from Gettysburg, I have become one of many Civil War buffs in this part of the country. I tackled Lord of the Rings in my junior year of college, and I still remember reading all night, the sun coming up just when I discovered that Gandalf had returned. I was so enthralled, I read all seven books in a month, then re-read them again the next month. I first read the Narnia Chronicles as a college sophomore. I currently teach professional and creative writing at Elizabethtown, as well as a first-year seminar on quest narratives. I grew up in Colorado, went to college in Santa Barbara, CA, and earned my PhD from UCLA. This is on the edge of "Amish country," and I sometimes pass a horse and buggy on my way to and from campus. I am a professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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