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  • Contributors' Notes

Natalie S, Bober is the author of five biographies for young adults: William Wordsworth: The Wandering Poet (1975), A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost (1981), Breaking Tradition: The Story of Louise Nevelson (1984), Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain (1988), and Marc Chagall: Painter of Dreams (forthcoming, 1991). She is currently at work on a biography of Abigail Adams, scheduled for publication in 1993.

Hamida Bosmajian is a professor of English at Seattle University. She has published widely in children's literature as well as literature about Nazism and the Holocaust. She is currently at work on a critical study about young readers' literature about Nazism, the Holocaust and nuclear war.

Susan R. Gannon is Professor of Literature and Communications at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York. She is the book review editor of Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and with Ruth Anne Thompson is author of the forthcoming Mary Mapes Dodge (Twayne). Her research interests include nineteenth-century American children's periodicals, Dodge, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Elizabeth Goodenough is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf and Carl Jung and is currently co-editing a volume entitled Infans: The Voice of the Child in Modern Literature. In 1988 she co-mounted an exhibition on Hawthorne at the Essex Institute and Houghton Library, San Marino, California, and is now planning an exhibition on children's book illustrations at the Huntington Library. [End Page 129]

Roni Natov is Professor of English at Brooklyn College. She is completing a book on Leon Garfield for Twayne and has published numerous articles in the field of children's literature. She is also a co-founder of The Lion and the Unicorn.

Suzanne Rahn is an associate professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of the History and Criticism, as well as numerous articles in the field. She is currently completing a book on "Rediscoveries in Children's Literature" and beginning one on historical fiction and nonfiction for children.

Ruth Anne Thompson is Associate Professor of Literature and Communications and Associate Dean of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences of Pace University. She is the treasurer of the Children's Literature Association and with Susan Gannon is author of the forthcoming Mary Mapes Dodge (Twayne). Her research interests include American periodicals of the nineteenth century and the nineteenth-century religious novel. [End Page 130]

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