Eric D. Lehman teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Bridgeport and his essays, reviews, poems, and stories have been published in dozens of journals and magazines. He is the author of eight history books, including Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London, and Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity, which won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America and was chosen as one of the American Library Association's outstanding university press books of the year. He is also the author of the bestselling travel guide Insiders' Guide to Connecticut, the Pushcart-nominated memoir Afoot in Connecticut: Journeys in Natural History, and the short story collection, The Foundation of Summer.