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  • Contributors

Joseph Awad (1929–2009) was a public-relations executive who wrote most of his poetry in retirement. Late into the Night (2009) was his fifth book of poetry.

A. Banerjee, a regular contributor, will have other pieces published in the SR this year.

Alan Bell recently retired as director of the London Library.

Robert Benson is working on his second collection of familiar essays.

Wendell Berry's Sabbaths poems have appeared in the SR for many years. Mr. Berry will have fiction in the summer issue.

Warner Berthoff, a regular contributor, earned the Heilman prize for excellence in book reviewing for the year 2009.

Robert Buffington is completing his critical biography of Allen Tate.

Bert Cardullo is writing a series of essays on critics of drama. Coming up in the SR are pieces on Stanley Kauffmann and Eric Bentley.

Peter Cooley has published several books of poetry, including Sacred Conversations and The Astonished Hours.

Peter Filkins is the author of two books of poems, What She Knew and After Homer.

Russell Fraser's latest book is From China to Peru: A Memoir of Travel. His next piece for the SR will be an essay-review devoted to Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

Emily Grosholz has an essay on women poets and the Hudson Review in the winter issue this year.

Henry Hart, who teaches at William and Mary, is best known for his critical biography of James Dickey.

David Heddendorf will have an essay on Trollope and two reviews in the SR later this year.

Simon Hunt, a previous contributor, teaches English in Monterey, California.

Elizabeth Hynes (1925–2008) did not complete the novel "A Small-Boned Woman," from which the story in this issue, "Girl in Summer," the opening sequence, has been taken.

Robert Lacy, a critic and short-story writer, has been writing reviews and essays for the SR since 2004.

Mairi Macinnes, a woman of letters who lives and works in York, England, has published seven collections of poetry, two novels, and a memoir.

Christopher McDonough, chair of the classical languages department at the University of the South, is a regular reviewer for this quarterly.

Stephen Miller's latest book is The Peculiar Life of Sundays. He regularly contributes to the periodical press.

Merritt Moseley has been writing about the Booker Prize competition for the Sewanee Review for many years.

W. Brown Patterson is writing a book on the English theologian William Perkins.

Sam Pickering has two books in press—a collection of personal essays and a memoir about Australia.

Fred C. Robinson is a professor of English at Yale who is currently writing on Noah Webster and on the history of printing in England.

Earl Rovit, a novelist and critic, has written reminiscences and criticism for the Sewanee Review since 1985.

Cushing Strout, an intellectual historian, has often written about British detective fiction for the SR.

Gerald Weales, who is chiefly interested in modern British and American drama, has been a contributor to the SR since 1976; and during that time he has written about such literary figures as Robert Benchley, A. J. Liebling, Christopher Morley, and Donald Ogden Stewart, as well as various playwrights.

Myles Weber, the author of Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish, is a regular reviewer for many quarterlies.

J. P. White, who has published several collections of poetry, including Every Boat Turns South, has contributed to the Sewanee Review since 1991.

Fred Douglas Young teaches history at the Westminster School in Atlanta. He is the author of a well-regarded book on Richard M. Weaver, A Life of the Mind. [Begin Page xxxv]

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