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Rolf Potts Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, ''Vagabonding'' (Random House, 2003) and ''Marco Polo Didn't Go There'' (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in ''National Geographic Traveler'', ''Outside'', Salon.com, Slate.com, ''The Guardian'', and ''World Hum''. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Believer'', the ''New York Times Magazine'', and the digital versions of ''The Nation'' and ''The Atlantic''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bio )〕 Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Paris Writing Workshop: Instructors )〕 and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Rolf Potts and the Henry Ford of Literature )〕 He currently teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Yale English Faculty: Rolf Potts, Lecturer )〕 == Early life == The son of schoolteachers, Potts grew up in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1989. He began college at Friends University, spending his summers working for an Outward Bound-style wilderness camp in Colorado〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Interview with Rolf Potts of Vagabonding )〕 and hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Rolf Potts on Long-Term Travel )〕 He later transferred to George Fox University, where he graduated with a degree in writing and literature in 1993.〔 After graduation Potts worked as a landscaper in Seattle for a year before embarking on an 8-month Volkswagen Vanagon journey around North America.〔 Potts later moved to Busan, South Korea, where he taught English at technical college for two years.〔 He started writing travel stories for Salon.com in 1998, while still living in Korea.〔
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