From the Editor

F r o m t h e E d it o r M e l o d y G r a u l i c h T h a n k s Ja" to N. Scott Momaday, a life member of WLA, for his gracious invitation to send a photographer to his house to take shots of recent paintings. Ja" to Andrew Smith, the willing photographer, who has become our “Resident New Mexico Photographer.” .S ’ to Charles Woodard for sending us his negatives of shots of ear­ lier Momaday works, which originally appeared in his Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday. S3 to Lee Marmon for generously sending us several of his won­ derful photographs to accompany Daniel Morris’s essay on the letters between Marmon’s daughter Leslie Silko and James Wright. Ja" to Anne Wright, James Wright’s widow, for sending us a photo­ graph of her husband, taken by his brother Ted Wright. .S ’ to Stephen Trimble, for providing us with an image to accom­ pany Ann Ronald’s review of nature writing. Their earlier collabora­ tion resulted in Earthtones, a verbal and visual exploration of Nevada’s natural beauty. to Gary Larsen, for his hilarious recastings of western mythol­ ogy and for letting us use one. JIF to Elizabeth Boone, for introducing me to Bernard Baruch Zakheim’s work in an intriguing presentation at the 1998 American Studies Association Conference and for providing us with biograph­ ical information about him and the images we use in the book review section. ...