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  • Contributors

Robert L. Arrington is professor of philosophy and chair of that department at Georgia State University, emeritus. In August he will hold the Ludwig Wittgenstein professorship at Vera Cruz University of Mexico. He is the coeditor of Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion.

Ann E. Berthoff has written essays and reviews on many subjects for this magazine since 1963, including on Canna, one of the Western Isles of Scotland.

Franklin Burroughs's most recent book, Confluence, earned the John Burroughs Medal for American nature writing in 2009. His latest honor was his induction into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in April.

J. F. R. Day teaches Shakespeare at Troy University. Some of his poetry will be appearing in the SR next year.

William B. Dillingham has retired from Emory University, where he taught for forty years. During that time he published four books on Herman Melville and is now completing his third book on Rudyard Kipling.

Russell Fraser has recently completed another travel book, and his durable biography of R. P. Blackmur has been reissued.

Maurice L. Goldsmith has previously written reminiscences on small-town life for these pages.

William Harmon, the James Gordon Hanes professor in the humanities at UNC, retired in 2008. His recent publications include A Handbook to Literature (12th edition) in 2011 and The Poetry Toolkit in 2012.

Henry Hart's most recent book is Background Radiation (Salt, 2007). He has completed a new poetry manuscript, "Orpheus Among Familiar Ghosts," and is now working on a biography of Robert Frost and a novel.

Nancy Revelle Johnson, a historian, has been reviewing for this quarterly for many years, chiefly writing about southern autobiography.

X. J. Kennedy's many awards include the Aiken Taylor prize and the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society.

Robert Lacy has regularly been contributing essays and reviews to the SR for well over a decade. He is the author of The Natural Father, a collection of stories.

Hilary Masters has a new novel, a satiric comedy, entitled Post (BkMk Press).

Wesley McNair's memoir, "The Words I Chose," is now in production at Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Richard O'Mara's collection of personal essays on the Great Depression, The Street Where They Lived, was published in the fall by Alondra Press.

Sanford Pinsker is an emeritus professor of humanities at Franklin and Marshall College. He lives in south Florida, reviews books, and continues to write essays.

Harry Lee Poe's book, Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe, has been published by Baylor University Press.

George Poe, who professes French, is the class of 1961 professor of French at the University of the South.

Earl Rovit, a retired professor and a novelist, has written many reviews and essays for the SR since 1985. He is also the author of an enduring book on Hemingway.

Cushing Strout, an intellectual historian, is a longtime contributor to this quarterly. His many interests include the English detective story, on which he will be writing for the fall issue.

William Trevor, as his principal magazine publisher, the New Yorker, has declared, is "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language." He is completing a new book of stories.

Myles Weber is the author of Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish. His literary criticism appears frequently in many quarterlies. He teaches English at Winona State University in Minnesota.

Stuart Wright has recently sold a large part of his collection of southern books to East Carolina University. [End Page lxviii]

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