Scott Abbott is the author of eight books ranging from the scholarly Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel and The Perfect Fence: Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire (with Lyn Ellen Bennett) — to the personal Wild Rides & Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes (with Sam Rushforth) and Immortal for Quite Some Time — to three books rooted in the former Yugoslavia with Žarko Radaković: Repetitions; Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary; and We: On Friendship — and to a book of essays about the idea of a university and academic freedom at BYU, Dwelling in the Promised Land as a Stranger. His translations include works by Peter Handke and Gregor Mendel.
