Scot Lehigh

I'm a long-time Boston Globe reporter and columnist. I started my journalism career as a freelance writer in Eastport, Maine, covering an environmental controversy of statewide interest during college summers. After a year at the Times Record in Brunswick, Maine, I next worked at the Boston Phoenix, where I was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for presidential-campaign reporting. From there I went to the Boston Globe, first as a reporter and now as a columnist. I have covered more political campaigns than I can count on my many hands and feet.

"Just East of Nowhere" is my first published novel, though I have several other nearly finished manuscripts in boxes in my basement. I'm a big fan of Alice Munro, Sue Miller, Robertson Davies, Edith Wharton, and Charles Portis. My favorite novels are "Brideshead Revisited" and "All the King's Men," though I'm not particularly fond of anything else that Evelyn Waugh or Robert Penn Warren wrote. I love Ian McEwan's "Atonement," but years ago, reading "The Comfort of Strangers" in the back seat of a car as two friends and I drove from Eastport, Maine, to Boston, I had such an instantaneous and reflexively negative reaction to the ending that I threw the book out the window. Fortunately, we were driving on Route 9 in remote backwoods Maine, without another car in sight.