Mr. SCOTT HEIM ("Mysterious Skin"): There's a lot in the book that's autobiographical, but, you know, also there's a lot in the book that is just wholly from myimagination.
Growing up in Maryland, just south of the Mason Dixon Line, I often let my wanderlust and imagination drift up the coast to a more perfect place of beautiful coastline, living history and a cultural patina that seemed a caste above my mid-Atlantic surroundings.