Joseph Mills

Like Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird," Joe Mills doesn’t remember learning to read. It’s an ability he always seems to have had. As a child, he hauled around a Falstaff beer case full of comic books on his family’s frequent travels. Now, he always carries a bag of books on trips. These usually go unopened because he ends up reading (and buying) what he finds on his journeys. He knows traveling would be much easier if he didn’t carry the bag, but he can’t bring himself to leave it behind. He currently lives in Winston-Salem where, to make his problem less obvious, he has divided his library among several locations, including his house, car, office and classroom at the UNC School of the Arts.