Tom WeilTom Weil once again reverts to type by writing yet another book to add to the earthly play of infinite forms. Hippocrene also published his LAST AT THE FAIR (1986), a book of travel essays which won a National Endowment of the Arts writing fellowshipgrant, and THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (1992) for which he won the Donald T. Wright Award for best book on a maritime topic. In 1993 he won an Author Recognition Award "for Outstanding Contributions to Missouri Literature." Weil is also the author of two adventure novels (one translated and published in Italy by Mondadori), and his travel articles have appeared in newspapers coast to coast, from The New York Times to the Los Angeles Times as well as in the Chicago Tribune, the Kansas City Star, the Des Moines Register, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Atlanta Journal and others. For 13 years he wrote the popular "Roaming With Weil" travel column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Read More Read Less