Kenneth P. Lizzio

Ken Lizzio is a professor of anthropology and Middle East Studies and author of "Embattled Saints: My Year with the Sufis of Afghanistan," an ethnography of an Islamic mystical brotherhood that won the IBPA’s 2015 Ben Franklin Silver Award. He is author of several books on the Great American West. His latest work from WayWord Books is "Spectacular Failures," an astonishing tale of the vagaries of early British exploration in Africa. He lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.