KEVIN E. O'DONNELL grew up in northeastern Ohio. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is professor of English at East Tennessee State University. He has published articles about nineteenth-century American magazine writing and nature writing and about environmental history in the Southeast, and he coedited, with Helen Hollingsworth, Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. He lives in Upper East Tennessee.