Porch Signing: Neil King, An American Ramble
Join us for a Saturday afternoon meet-and-greet on The Ivy’s spacious front porch, featuring Neil King and his new book AMERICAN RAMBLE!
AMERICAN RAMBLE is a revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City — an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.
Here’s what Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Travels with George and In the Heart of the Sea, has to say: “American Ramble is a dazzling mixture of travelogue, memoir, and history. At times profound, funny and heartbreaking, this is the story of a traveler intoxicated by life. I couldn’t put it down.”
Neil King Jr. grew up in Colorado in a house with the Rocky Mountains out the back door and the flat plains out the front. He went to school in Chicago and then New York City, where he studied philosophy at Columbia University. He worked a multitude of jobs, from busboy and ranch hand to cab driver and private investigator, before settling into a career in journalism. He worked in Florida for the Tampa Tribune and later for the Prague Post in the newly born Czech Republic. For 20 years he traveled to more than 50 countries in all continents to write and report and poke around as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During his years in Washington, DC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent, national political reporter and, at the end, the Journal’s global economics editor. He now travels and writes on his own. He is the founder and editor of Gotham Canoe, an online journal dedicated to life out of doors. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal is his first book. He lives with his wife in Washington DC.
