Contributors and Editors
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Frances Armstrong is author of Dickens and the Concept of Home (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989) and has published articles on Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, and Olive Schreiner. She has recently completed Pocket Companions: Women, Girls, and Dolls and is working on a study of the associations between women and littleness.
Susan P. Bloom directs the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, the nation's first Master of Arts in Children's Literature degree program. With Cathryn M. Mercier she published a biocritical study titled Presenting Zibby Oneal (Twayne, 1991) and has contributed widely to children's literature journals.
Hamida Bosmajian is professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Seattle University, where she teaches courses in children's literature and law and literature. Her publications usually focus on literature for young readers about Nazism and the Holocaust. What intrigued her in Taylor's trilogy was the possibility of legal and social transformation through the law. Unlike Nazism, which legalized and licensed murderous persecution, the constitutional frame in American society enables people to change and transform unjust state laws.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer, adjunct associate professor of comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has recently completed a study of change in Bible stories for young readers, The Bible for Children from the Age of Gutenberg to the Present.
Francelia Butler, founding editor of Children's Literature, has published many books on children's literature, including Skipping Around the World: The Ritual Nature of Folk Rhymes.
John Cech's most recent children's book is The Southernmost Cat (Simon and Schuster). His study of Maurice Sendak, Angels and Wild Things, is reviewed in this issue. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
R. H. W. Dillard, editor-in-chief of Children's Literature and professor of English at Hollins College, is the longtime chair of the Hollins Creative Writing Program and is adviser to the director of the Hollins Graduate Program in Children's Literature. A novelist and poet, he is also the author of two critical monographs, Horror Films and Understanding George Garrett, as well as articles on Ellen Glasgow, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico Fellini, Robert Coover, Fred Chappell, and others.
Anita Clair Fellman, who teaches women's studies and history at Old Dominion University, is completing a book on the place of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books in American culture.
Rachel Fordyce, former executive secretary of the Children's Literature Association, has written five books, most recently Semiotics and Linguistics in Alice's Worlds with Carla Marello. She is a professor of English and the dean of humanities and social sciences at Montclair State University.
Elizabeth N. Goodenough has taught English at Harvard, Claremont McKenna College, and the University of Michigan. She coedited Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature (1994) and has published articles on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Virginia Woolf.
Andrew Gordon is associate professor of English at the University of Florida, where he teaches American literature and science fiction. He is the author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer and is completing a book on the films of Steven Spielberg. He has written on Le Guin's fiction for children in [End Page 257] the Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 52: American Writers for Children since 1960: Fiction, and is an editorial consultant for Science-Fiction Studies.
Holly Keller, who lives in West Redding, Connecticut, is the author and illustrator of over thirty books for children. She has a strong interest in American intellectual history and is currently working on captivity stories in American children's literature.
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, editor of volumes 22-24, is an associate professor of English at Hollins College, where she teaches children's literature, American literature, and American studies. Her book Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott (University of Tennessee Press) won the 1993 Children's Literature Association Book Award. She is currently writing the volume on Little Women for the Twayne Masterwork Series.
Cathryn M. Mercier, an assistant professor at Simmons College, is...
