The Wizard of Mecosta: Russell Kirk, Gothic Fiction, and the Moral Imagination - Hardcoverby Camilo Peralta (Author) "The Wizard of Mecosta" offers an extended analysis of the fiction of Russell Amos Kirk (1918 1994), a central figure in modern American conservatism who is often referred to as "the father" of the same. Born and raised in Michigan, Kirk was also a prolific writer of fiction, who published almost two dozen short stories and three novels over the course of his long career. At the heart of everything Kirk wrote was what he