When America Turned: Reckoning with 1968

About the Author, Back Cover

DAVID WYATT was born in Lynwood, California, in 1948. He received a BA from Yale University in 1970 and a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1975. He is the author of two books on his native state, The Fall into Eden and Five Fires, and of a memoir about living through the fall of 2001 called And the War Came. In 2010 he published Secret Histories: Reading TwentiethCentury American Literature. He has taught at the University of Virginia and at Princeton University and is a member of the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where he is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. The father of three children, Luke, Courtenay, and Ian, he lives with his wife, Ann Porotti, in Charlottesville. “This page intentionally left blank” “This page intentionally left blank” ...