About the Authors and Editors

About the Authors and Editors Tone Blevins is a writer from Surfside, Florida. Her novel, Issue, will be published in 1996. James C. Cobb is Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His most recent publication is The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots ofRegional Identity. Peter A. Coclanis is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his recent publications is The Shadow ofa Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920. William Ferris is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Ferris is coeditor of the Encyclopedia ofSouthern Culture. His most recent book is You Live and Learn. Then You Die and Forget it All: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men. Trudier Harris is Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of American Literature at Emory University. Her latest book is Fiction and Folklore: The Novels ofToni Morrison. Anne Goodwyn Jones is professor of English at the University of Florida. Her most recent book is Tomonow is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 18S9-1936. She is coediting the forthcoming Gender and Southern Texts and working on a book called Theory and the Good Old Boys on white southern masculinity. William Koon is professor of English at Clemson University. His most recent book is A Collection ofClassic Southern Humor II: More Fiction and Occasional Fact. James L. Leloudis is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Leloudis is coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World and is review editor for Southern Cultures. David Moltke-Hansen is director of the Southern Historical and Folklife Collections, curator of manuscripts at the library, and director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moltke-Hansen is associate editor of Southern Cultures. 536Southern Cultures John Shelton Reed is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and director of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Surveying the South: Essays in Regional Sociology. Reed is coeditor of Southern Cultures. Johanna Nicol Shields is professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her most recent book is The Line of Duty: Maverick Congressmen and the Development of American Political Culture, 1836-1860. Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent publication is Liberty and Politics: The Politics ofjacksonian America. Watson is coeditor of Southern Cultures. ...