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'''Scott Russell Sanders''' (born [[1945]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[novelist]] and [[essayist]].
Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to ''Audubon'' magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer, his essay "The Force of Spirit," which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title, was first given as a lecture before the Orion Society's Millennium Conference in 1999. The essay later appeared in the ''Best American Essays 2000'' and was the fourth essay of Sanders' to appear in the Best American series. He received the Lannan Literary Award in 1995 for his non-fiction writing and has received the Frederick Bachman Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award given at IU.
Sanders is a distinguished [[professor]] of [[English studies|English]] at [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]], where he has taught since 1971. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], and as a Visiting Professor at [[University of Oregon]] and [[MIT]]. He is [[married]] with two [[children]], Eva and Jesse, both of whom he addresses in letters included in ''The Force of Spirit''.
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