Roy Blount

Roy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-two books, about a wide range of things, from the first woman president of the United States to what barnyard animals are thinking. Next is Hail, Hail Euphoria: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, from HarperCollins. The most recent, Alphabet Juice, is out in paperback from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, which will publish the sequel, Alphabetter Juice: The Joy of Text, in April. The next most recent, Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South (Knopf), won the 2007 nonfiction award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association; and AudioFile chose the audio version (HighBridge) as one of the year's top five books read by their authors. The book before that one, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, "delivers the goods," according to the New York Times: "a wild, unpredictable ramble through a wild, unpredictable town."