Bob Sehlinger, a Lowell Thomas Award-winning journalist, is best known as the creator and producer of The Unofficial Guide series. He is the founder and coowner of AdventureKEEN, a book publishing company that includes Menasha Ridge Press, Clerisy Press, Wilderness Press, and Adventure Publications. The author of 27 books, Bob is a past president of the Publishers Association of the South, and he has served at the invitation of the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Information Service on educational missions for publishers in Hungary, Romania, and Russia. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.