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About Miles Harvey
- Miles Harvey is an American journalist and author.
- He is best known for his 2000 book, The Island of Lost Maps, which recounted the story of a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, who stole old and precious maps from libraries across America. Harvey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 with a B.S.
- degree in journalism and earned an M.F.A.
- degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1991.
- He worked for United Press International, In These Times and Outside.
- While at Outside he wrote a 1997 story on Gilbert Bland, which was the origin for The Island of Lost Maps. Harvey states that he has had a lifelong fascination with maps, which he partially attributes to his father's similar interest.
- The Island of Lost Maps doesn't just tell the story of Bland's crimes, but also relates much cartographic lore and legend and includes material on Harvey's own life and family.
- He lives in Chicago and received a 2004 fellowship for fiction from the Illinois Arts Council. In 2008, Harvey published his second book, Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America.
- This is a non-fiction work that chronicles Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues's adventures with the French expedition to Florida led by Jean Ribault during the sixteenth century.
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