About the Authors

About the Authors Thomas W. Ford (Ph.D., University of Texas) has taught at the Uni­ versity of Texas and the University of South Carolina, and is now an associate professor of English at the University of Houston. His publications include articles in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, the University Review, Southern Folklore Quarterly, Mark Twain Journal, Walt Whitman Review, Midwest Quarterly. He is author of a book on Emily Dickinson, Heaven Beguiles the Tired: Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (University of Alabama Press, 1966), a pamphlet on A. B. Guthrie, Jr., and is currently writing a book on A. B. Guthrie, Jr., for Twayne United States Authors Series. Gerald Haslam (M.A., San Francisco State College) is associate professor of English and Ethnic Studies at Sonoma State College. He has published a number of articles (plus a scattering of fiction and poetry) in the following journals: College English, Negro American Literature Forum, Arizona Quart­ erly, Rocky Mountain Review, Voices, Research Studies, California English Journal, The Black American Writer, Contemporary English. His first book, Forgotten Pages of American Literature, has just been published by Houghton Mifflin Company. His pamphlet on William Eastlake, in the Southwest Writers Series, will be released late next summer. David H. Stewart (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is professor of English at Idaho State University and has taught formerly at University of Alberta and University of Michigan. He has published numerous articles on English, American, and Russian authors in such journals as The American Slavic and East European Review, The Dalhousie Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and College English. He has written one book, Mikhail Sholokhov: A Critical Introduction, University of Michigan Press, 1967. George Kellogg (M.A., Yale University), who has been humanities librarian at the University of Idaho since 1957, died last April. ...