Life-long Ohio residentSandra Gurvisis the author of nine books and hundreds of magazine articles on travel and other topics. Her titles includeCareers for Nonconformists(Marlowe, 2000), which was a selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club;The Well-Traveled Dog(TFH, 2001);America's Strangest Museums(Carol/Citadel, 1998, 1996);30 Great Cities to Start Out In(Arco/Macmillan, 1997);Way Stations to Heaven(Arco/Macmillan, 1996); among others. A novel about campus uprisings in a small Ohio town,The Pipe Dreamers, was published by Olmstead Press in 2001. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.