Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University.
He is also the author or editor of ten other books, including Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol\' Boys Defined a State ..
He published with the University of Illinois Press his capstone work--three volumes constituting the definitive history of the Ozarks.
Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University