Author-mycologist Lawrence Millman has written 16 other books including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, An Evening Among Headhunters, Wolverine the Trickster, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, and -- most recently -- At the End of the World and Fascinating Fungi of New England. He has done fungal inventories in places as diverse as Nunavik, Belize, Western Samoa, Nantucket Island, East Greenland, Honduras, a meteorite crater in northern Quebec, and the summit of Mt. Greylock in western Massachusetts. His book Fascinating Fungi of New England is the first ever guide to New England mushrooms. He keeps a post office box in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Millman is a genius. Annie Dillard I dare you to put this book down, once you open it. It's irresistible. Elio Schaechter