* Published over 1,000 pieces of writing in magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, web sites and literary journals for companies and universities, including Harvard University, Oxford University Press, The Ohio State University, Charles Scribner and Sons, Macmillan and Gale and Indiana University Press * Published four books and am under contract for a fifth; contributed material to more than one dozen other books. Books include: Pop Culture of the 70s (Greenwood Press, under contract for 2007 release) How to Become a Funeral Director (FabJob, publication anticipated January 2006) Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters: Joe Jackson (Greenwood Publishing, 2004), a look at one of the most talented-and controversial-athletes of our century Birth of Illumination (2001), a work-for-hire book about the rise of the public library system in Toni Morrison's hometown Bout Boomerangs: America's Silent Sport (PlantSpeak Publications, 1996), a book that the Australian national boome