Journalist, critic, and memoirist, Thomas Larson is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written about Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, as well as The Sanctuary of Illness and The Memoir and the Memoirist. He is a long-time staff writer for the San Diego Reader, Book Reviews Editor for River Teeth, and a regular contributor to The Truth Seeker, America’s oldest free-thought magazine. An active member of AWP and Nonfiction Now, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Nonfiction at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.