Menu Menu Floyd Skloot is the author of fifteen books. He has won three Pushcart Prizes and a PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and has been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Food Writing, and Best Spiritual Writing. His most recent memoir, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life (University of Nebraska, 2008), was one of the Oregonian’s Top 10 Northwest Books of the year.