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, "Born-Again Skeptic & Other Valedictions," was published in 2011. Currently he is working on another volume of essays with the working title of "Utility Man," a book about the Jemez Valley of New Mexico, and collections of essays about the American West and about British writers of the 1930s. He is also editing the variorum edition of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" for the Oxford University Press edition of the Complete Works. lives in Arizona and is an independent writer, lecturer, and consultant.