Contributors' Notes
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors' Notes
Esther G. Bierbaum is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. She has written and given presentations on cataloging, database management, and accessing information in libraries and museums.
Diana Beeson is program director of University of Iowa Television and is an adjunct faculty member at Kirkwood Community College and a PhD. candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has worked as a television reporter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Jefferson City, Missouri, and as public information director.
Kathleen Reuter Chamberlain is associate professor of English at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia. She has served as chair of the American Culture Association's section on dime novels, pulps, and juvenile series books. Chamberlain has written and presented papers on women's studies, children's literature, and popular culture.
J. Randolph Cox is Reference and Government Documents Librarian, with the rank of full professor, at Rølvaag Memorial Library, Saint Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. He has published critical studies and bibliographies on topics in popular culture, with an emphasis on detective fiction and dime novels, in The Armchair Detective, the Baker Street Journal, the Dime Novel Roundup, Popular Culture in Libraries, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other journals and reference books. He is the author of Man of Magic and Mystery: A Guide to the Work of Walter B. Gibson (1988), Tad-Schrift: Twenty Years of Mystery Fandom in the Armchair Detective (1987), Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction (1989), and, with William J. Scheick, H. G. Wells: A Reference Guide (1988). He is currently at work on a one-volume encyclopedic guide to the American Dime Novel.
Ann Haugland is assistant professor of communication at Illinois State University. Her research interests include popular culture and books as a mass communication medium. [End Page 119]
Deidre Ann Johnson is assistant professor of children's literature in the Department of English, West Chester University, Pennsylvania. She complied and wrote Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and Series Books (1982), a bibliography of Stratemeyer publications. Her recent book, Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate is reviewed in this issue.
Geoffrey S. Lapin "discovered" Mildred Benson as the author of early Nancy Drews and has written about her role as Carolyn Keene and about other Stratemeyer Syndicate freelancers in numerous articles. Lapin has been a cellist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra since 1972 and is adjunct professor of cello at Purdue University.
Radhika Parameswaran is a first-year doctoral student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa. She is a citizen of India and has lived in the United States for the past three years. She has worked as a journalist and as a columnist for several newspapers in India. She has also worked as an editor for publishing companies both in India and the United States. She loves reading fiction and traveling.
Nancy Tillman Romalov has taught courses in children's literature at the University of Iowa and Pacific Lutheran University. Her articles and book reviews have appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn and elsewhere. She is co-editor of a forthcoming anthology on Nancy Drew to be published by the University of Iowa Press in 1995.
Mary Helen Stefaniak (M.F.A., the University of Iowa Workshop) has won awards for both fiction and nonfiction, and her stories have appeared in numerous publications. She recently completed a co-authored work, The Buckwalters of Pocahontas County, the first in a series of novels for children.
Kari Skjønsberg is senior lecturer at The Norwegian School of Library and Information Science in Oslo. She has written and edited several books on children's literature and on questions of feminism, combining the two subjects in her thesis "Sex Roles in Children's Literature," 1972. She has written numerous articles and presented papers, also in English, French, and German, on the same subjects. She has been president of the Council of the Norwegian Institute for Children's Literature and has been given a prestigious award for the translation of Lloyd Alexander. [End Page 120]
