David Emblidge

David Emblidge edited Beneath the Metropolis: Secret Lives of Cities (Running Press), "My Day" Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Columns (Da Capo), The Appalachian Trail Reader (Oxford Univ. Press). Emblidge's essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, Saturday Review, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and numerous scholarly journals. His essay "The Palmer Method: Penmanship and the Tenor of Our Time" won the McGinnis Prize for best nonfiction, 2007, in Southwest Review. Formerly Editor-in-Chief at The Mountaineers Books, he is now Associate Professor, Emerson College (Writing, Literature and Publishing Dept.) and is writing a narrative history of American bookstores.