Scott Sanders (novelist)
 Scott Russell Sanders (born 1945 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American novelist and essayist.Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer his essay The Force of Spirit which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title was first given as a lecture before the Orion Society's Millennium Conference in 1999.