Walter Anderson (1903-1965) lived in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he spent his lifetime recording the region's flora, fauna, life forces, light, and history of his native territory. He is known today as mythmaker, local legend, mystic poet, painter, inveterate voyager, and, most of all, brilliant artist. Redding S. Sugg Jr. (1922-2007) is author of A Painter's Psalm, a book about Walter Anderson's secret room in which he painted murals celebrating the natural world, a superlative collection of art that was unknown until after Anderson's death. Sugg also edited Walter Anderson's The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson, published by University Press of Mississippi.