User:Lawrence Walker

Lawrence Walker has a B.A. in American Studies (1981) and an M.A. in American Civilization (1989) from the University of Texas at Austin. He was the research and teaching assistant for Pulitzer Prize winning professor William H. Goetzmann. Walker's other professorial mentors in the American Studies department included Robert Crunden, Alfred Crosby and William Stott. Walker is a bicycle tour guide and director of tours nationwide and occasionally writes freelance travel guides, articles and works of cultural analysis. He writes "A Better Nation," a blog relating to matters of American culture.