Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story of How a Book Happened

Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015

The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper-the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by p...