Dr. Curt Bobbitt

My love of books, writing, and talk began in second grade when Willa Austin (our teacher) allowed five of us to form a geography club in the otherwise unused old school library. Instead of our reading group during class, we could move to the adjacent room and page through atlases, encyclopedias, and huge books with ironic titles like A Brief History of the World. Many of the resources came from the years before World War II. Since that time, I have enjoyed visiting libraries and bookstores whenever I travel.  I grew up in Indiana and lived in Wisconsin and West Virginia before moving to Montana in 1987. Thanks to family vacations and personal curiosity, I have visited 48 states (all except Alabama & Hawaii), Mexico, and all ten Canadian provinces and their capitals. Professionally I have taught high school, slaughtered hogs, kept books for hotels, and taught college. Teaching English at UGF has been my best and longest job, allowing me to pursue many interests and ambitions.

British fiction of the mid-eighteenth century, Arthurian legends (see particularly http://inkwire.org/Arthurian-Novels.htm), classical mythology.