Susan McKee is an independent scholar and freelance journalist specializing in history, culture and travel. She honed her craft as a general assignment reporter for more than a decade at a major metropolitan daily newspaper before fleeing corporate journalism for the peripatetic life of a freelancer. Although a third-generation Chicagoan (where she attended both Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago), Susan graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, snagged one master’s degree at Indiana University and another at Purdue University. She makes Indianapolis her home base.