Richard Goodman is the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, which the San Francisco Chronicle said is “one of the most charming, perceptive, and subtle books ever written about the French by an American.” He is also the author of The Soul of Creative Writing, A New York Memoir, and The Bicycle Diaries: One New Yorker’s Journey Through 9-11. He is co-editor of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing. He has published articles and essays in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Vanity Fair, Creative Nonfiction, Ascent, River Teeth, Hippocampus, Chautauqua, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Saveur. He has taught writing workshops in New York City, Louisville, New Orleans and Maine for the past thirty years.