Lawrence Millman has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Islands, Summit and many other magazines. His books include Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hero Jesse, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Wolverine Creates the World, The Wrong-Handed Man and Last Places. Two collections of Millman’s travel essays have been published, entitled An Evening among Headhunters and Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled.

When not on the road, Millman lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "On the road", for Millman, usually means off it — preferably a destination difficult to access and unknown to almost everyone else. Much of the time it also means somewhere in the North. He has made twelve trips to Arctic Canada, nine trips to Greenland, six to Labrador and six to Iceland. In fact, he sleeps with his head pointing north. For he feels the only way he can get a good night’s rest is to align himself with the north magnetic pole and allow currents flowing from it to pass through his body and out his feet. He says any other point of the compass would result in insomnia and likewise give his system a rude geographical shock!