Product Description Sophy is The Journal of Inspired Writing. Four new books appear each year, each one containing great examples of inspired literature from English and American short stories, essays, and poems. Authors featured in Volume I are Frank Stockton, Edith Wharton, Carl Japikse, H.D. Thoreau, Elizabeth B. Browning, Herman Melville, Wa;t Whitman, Washington Irving, Richard Steele, B. Franklin, Charles Lamb, Talbot Mundy, P.G. Wodehouse, Hilaire Belloc, Lord Dunsany, Robert Frost, Leonard Merrick, and Oscar Wilde. About the Author Carl Japikse is author or editor of more than 50 books, ranging from the bestselling Fart Proudly to books dealing with the human mind, spirit, and creativity. A graduate of Dartmouth College and a former staffer for the Wall Street Journal, he and his wife Rose live in the north Georgia mountains.