Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and Child. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served as guest host on "The State of Things" on WUNC-FM.
His sixth book, "On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work," came out in 2010, and his work has also been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as The Appalachian Trail Reader, Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel, and LIterary Trails of the Carolina Piedmont. His work has been translated into five languages. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence and their two sons.
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