Robert RoperA widely published novelist and former professor at John Hopkins University, ROBERT ROPER is the author of Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita. The recipient of several awards for works of fiction and nonfiction, his Fatal Mountaineer, a biograhy of the climber-philosopher Willi Unsoeld, won the 2002 Boardman Tasker Prize; and his Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War was an Editor's Choice pick in the New York Times Book Review. Roper's journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Outside, and numerous other publications. Read More Read Less