Paul Hendrickson worked for thirty years in journalism and was a staff feature writer at the Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. He is the author of a number of distinguished books, including Seminary: A Search and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. He won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in Non-Fiction for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. His most recent book is Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost, a view of the author's final decades through the lens of his attachment to his fishing boat Pilar. Hendrickson teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is working on a book about Frank Lloyd Wright.