Earl Swift is Fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia and New York Times' bestselling author of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, and the new book Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings.

Website: www.earlswift.com