Robert Murray Davis

Robert Murray Davis taught in five American, two Canadian, and two Hungarian universities over forty-five years. He has also lectured and given poetry readings in a dozen countries. Besides literary criticism and scholarship, much of it on Evelyn Waugh and on the American West, he has published four books of creative nonfiction, including "Mid-Lands: A Family Album," "The Ornamental Hermit: People and Places of the New West," and "Midlife Mojo: A Guide for the Newly Single Male," and the cultural study "The Literature of Post-Communist Slovena, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania." His collection of personal essays, "Valedictions," will be published in fall, 2011. Currently he lives in Arizona and is an independent writer and consultant.