Ghost Trees

Still Available on Amazon His youth inspired by a Danforth Leadership Award, Ralph La Rosa later earned a Ford Foundation grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Lectureship to the Soviet Union. He was educated at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. A teaching career included appointments at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, UCLA, Tbilisi State University in the Soviet Georgian Republic (the first extensive appointment outside of Moscow), and Northwestern University—Evanston. After his assignment to the USSR, he was invited to teach in Budapest and Munich but was unable to accept the offers. In recent years, he taught at several colleges and universities in California. Ralph’s publications include critical prose on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in American Literature, Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. Myerson and Burkholder), Sewanee Review, Wisconsin Monograph Series, and elsewhere.