Breadcrumb Home Canin discusses troubled genius character from his latest novel Thursday, February 18, 2016 Dickinson County News http://www.npr.org/2016/02/17/467093823/in-doubters-almanac-troubled-math-geniu… Ethan Canin, F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, discusses troubled math genius Milo Andret, the lead character of his latest novel, A Doubter's Almanac.