Bio:

Sam explored the conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania. Rowman & Littlefield published Sam's fellowship as a book, The Agony of an American Wilderness, in March 2005. His next book, a memoir called The Urban Hermit, was released by St. Martin's Press in December 2008, and received positive reviews in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Boston Globe and a host of other media outlets. He lives with his wife, and four children in rural Ridgway, Pennsylvania, where he was born and raised. He currently works in economic development, but is still writing and teaching as well.