Peter LaSalle is a novelist and short-story writer who also writes books on literary travel, including the essay collections The World Is a Book, Indeed (LSU Press, 2020) and The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling (Dzanc Books, 2015). His travel essays exploring the literature of other countries have been published in a number of journals and magazines as well as anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing in 2014, selected by Paul Theroux, and in 2010, selected by Bill Buford. He is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.