Kevin R. Cox was born in Warwick, England in 1939. He fell in love with geography as a field of study while attending Warwick School and later at Cambridge University. In 1965 after graduate work at the University of Illinois he took a position at Ohio State University and has been there ever since. He is the author of five books and editor co-editor of a further eight. He is keen on mountain walking and modern jazz. He plays the saxophone, follows Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Cincinnati Bengals and is a confirmed francophile. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is currently Distinguished Professor of Geography at Ohio State.