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About the Author
HARRISON SCOTT KEY’s writing has been featured in The Best American Travel Writing, New York Times, Outside, Salon, Chronicle of Higher Education, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Living, Reader’s Digest, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Mockingbird, Green County Independent, Brevity, Gulf Coast, and Oxford American, where he is also a contributing editor. He teaches at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and three children. Harper published his first memoir, The World’s Largest Man, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-284332-6
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Print ISBN: 978-0-06-284330-2
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