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  • Contributors

Alan Andrews is Professor of Theater at Dalhousie University. He edited Allan Wade’s Memories of the London Theatre, 1900-1914 (1983) and the Dalhousie Review for ten years. He has written and lectured frequently for the Shaw Festival in Ontario, on Shaw, Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin. He is currently working on Barker’s uncollected essays, articles, introductions, reviews, and lectures, and on a collection of Shaw’s correspondence with musicians for the Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw series.

Charles A. Carpenter is Professor Emeritus of English at Binghamton University. He is the author ofBernard Shaw & the Art of Destroying Ideals: The Early Plays, Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism, 1966-1990: An International Bibliography (2 vols.), Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964, and two other reference books. His website, entitled “Modern British, Irish, and American Drama, 1865-1965: A Descriptive Chronology,” can be found at bingweb.binghamton.edu/~ccarpen.

Patricia Carter, a published poet, was an adjunct faculty member at Catholic, George Washington, American, and Georgetown universities. She wrote her dissertation for George Washington University on Back to Methuselah, entitled “The Gospel of the Biologist Shaw.” She has also published two novellas and continues to write fiction and drama.

L. W. Conolly is Professor of English at Trent University and Adjunct Professor of Drama at the University of Guelph, as well as a Corresponding Scholar of the Shaw Festival, Ontario. He is editor of Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson, the fourth volume in the Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw series (University of Toronto Press), of which he is the General Editor.

MaryAnn K. Crawford, Associate Editor of SHAW, is an Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where she directs the Basic Writing/Writing Center programs and teaches linguistics and [End Page 293] composition. She researches, writes, and publishes on a variety of literary, linguistic/ESL, and literacy issues, and she is working on a biography of Lowell Thomas, the late radio broadcaster and newsreel personality.

R. F. Dietrich, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, is the author of Bernard Shaw’s Novels: Portrait of the Artist as Man and Superman, British Drama 1890 to 1950: A Critical History and many articles on Shaw and other modern authors. He is the Series Editor of the Florida Shaw Series published by the University Press of Florida (http://www.upf.com/se-shaw.shtml). As president of the International Shaw Society, he invites prospective members to visit the ISS website (http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss.htm) or to contact him at dietrich@chuma1.cas.usf.edu.

Bernard F. Dukore, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, has directed plays and written numerous books and articles on modern drama and theater. His most recent books are Shaw’s Theater and Sam Peckinpah’s Feature Films.

Peter Gahan, a graduate in Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, worked for some years as a documentary film editor in Ireland before relocating to Los Angeles. He has published several articles in SHAW and has just completed a book-length study of Shaw’s writing in the context of poststructuralism.

Gale K. Larson, General Editor of SHAW, has been teaching for the last thirty-seven years at California State University, Northridge, where he has held various administrative positions. He has edited an edition of Caesar and Cleopatra and has written articles on that play as well as on “In Good King Charles’s Golden Days” and has reviewed works on Shaw in various journals. He is the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement in Literature.

Dan H. Laurence, author of Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, editor of Shaw’s Collected Letters and Shaw’s Music, and Editorial Supervisor of Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, was Literary and Dramatic Advisor to the Shaw Estate from 1973 to 1990 and is an Associate Director of the Shaw Festival, Ontario.

Margery M. Morgan, Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Lancaster, is the author of The Shavian Playground and File on Wilde. She has published books and articles on Shaw and on Granville Barker over many years. She...

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