![]() ![]() These were cautionary but ebullient celebrations of America - of its people and landscape and history - all penned by a man determined to show, like the proudest of fathers, what idiosyncratic glories this homemade nation contains.īorn William Trogdon, in Kansas City, Mo., Least Heat-Moon found his pen name early on, when his scoutmaster father, of Osage descent, christened himself "Heat Moon," William's brother "Little Heat Moon" and William "Least Heat Moon." (The hyphen, he says, came later, after he'd been addressed as "Mr. Least Heat-Moon's sophomore effort, 1991's "PrairyErth: A Deep Map," an almost microscopically in-depth and exhaustive exploration of a single rural county in Kansas, garnered him similar sales and praise. The book exploded: "Blue Highways" clung to the New York Times bestseller list for nearly a year, and critics adored it. With the 1983 publication of "Blue Highways," his folksy travelogue through America's near-forgotten back roads, William Least Heat-Moon instantly established himself as one of the nation's preeminent travel writers. ![]()
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