No one has lived a life like Roxie Powell--and if you don't believe it, all you need to do is read his memoir: Tumbleweed of Contradictions.

Born in Kansas toward the end of the Dust Bowl period on the high plains, he was raised in western Kansas and the high mountains of Colorado. His father taught him to look out to the horizon and then beyond, and he did just that, working on a cruise ship that took him all over the world.

While he's had different loves throughout his life, the constant one has been writing, and he recalls his interactions with literary giants...