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 4 are Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Hilaire Belloc, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.B. Rands, Edgar Allen Poe, William Wordsworth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Vachel Lindsay, Washington Irving, Joseph Addison, and E.M. Forster. About the Author Carl Japikse is the author or editor of more than 50 books, ranging from the bestselling Fart Proudly to books that probe the inner dimensions of the human mind, spirit, and creativity. A graduate of Dartmouth College and a former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, he and his wife Rose live in the north Georgia mountains.