Who Am I?

Yi-Fu Tuan is author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Human Goodness, The Good Life, Space and Place, Topophilia, and Coming Home to China. Tuan is the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has been honored with the Cullum Medal of the American Geographical Society, the Laureat d'Honneur of the International Geographical Union, and the Charles Homer Haskins Lectureship of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In this brief and unsparing autobiography, one of the greatest living geographers turns his versatile intelligence away from studying the landscape of the earth to studying the landscape of self. - Scott Russell Sanders, Hungry Mind Review ""An honest and highly personal, if unfashionable, perspective on sexuality, race, and identity.... It is undoubtedly worth reading, both for the inherently interesting tale it relates and for Tuan's willingness to risk self-exposure."" - Benjamin Forest, Cultural Geographies ""[Tuan] unfolds his life, friendships, environment, and emotions in a unique manner that not only makes reading this book quite interesting but also encourages readers to look at human life and society from a different perspective."" - Suping Lu, Multicultural Review ""A stunningly good book - entrancing, exciting, beautifully written, full of apercus that stimulate, tantalize, and fulfill."" - David Lowenthal, author of The Past is a Foreign Country