David HannDavid Hann tells tales of outlaws and nonconformists, and is a writer of adventure and misadventure from central U.S.A. to Central Asia. The Jayhawker Cleveland, his latest YA historical fiction, follows River Memoir and other stories, 2011, and Kanss Past: Pieces of the 34th Star, 1999. Hann established himself as an aficionado of the strange wonders of Kansas in Sampling Kansas: A Guide to the Curious, 1990. David lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he retired from the University of Kansas in 2009. Hann's wanderings abroad have included expulsion from Scotland, being ordered off buses at gunpoint in Guatemala, a nighttime eyeball to gun muzzle encounter with a Turkish soldier, detention and film confiscation for violating state security in Uzbekistan, and eviction from the Eiffel Tower. His travels in the U.S. include being surrounded by running buffalo at night in the rain, having a mountain lion cub leap into the back seat of his car, receiving a full-face lick from a buffalo, and escaping a raging flash flood in the Gasconade River in Missouri. Read More Read Less