Robert E. Lee

Roy Blount, Jr. is the author of ninteen other books, most recently Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans. He is a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, a columnist for Oxford American, a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly, and president of the Authors Guild. he lives in western Massachussetts.Roy Blount, Jr. is represented by the Random House Speakers Bureau (http://www.rhspeakers.com).

Roy Blount, Jr. is the author of more than twenty books, covering subjects from the Pittsburgh Steelers to what dogs are thinking to the ins and outs of etymology. He is a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Born in Indianapolis and raised in Decatur, Georgia, he now divides his time between New Orleans and western Massachusetts with his wife, the painter Joan Griswold, and their cat, Jimmy.