CONTRIBUTORS

1 9 8 Y C O N T R I B U T O R S LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS (1917–2010) was author of more than sixty books of fiction, biography, and literary criticism, including The Rector of Justin, The Embezzler, and The Education of Oscar Fairfax, and a long-time Wall Street lawyer. He served as presidentoftheAmericanAcademyofArts and Letters. BERT CARDULLO teaches in the media and communications department at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. He is the author of Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (State University of New York Press) and the editor of Akira Kurosawa: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi). DEWEY FAULKNER has taught at Yale and at the University of Texas in San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper , television, and radio as a music critic. PAULA FOX’s many books include six novels and two memoirs, Borrowed Finery and The Coldest Winter, the latter chronicling her time in Europe following the Second World War. She lives in Brooklyn. DAVID GALEF is a professor of English at Montclair State University and the author of a dozen books. His latest work is A Man of Ideas and Other Stories. PAUL GRIMSTAD’s book in progress, Experience and Experimental Writing from Emerson to the Jameses, explores changes in the meaning of ‘‘experience.’’ He is assistant professor of English at Yale University. KENNETH GROSS is the author of The Dream of the Moving Statue (1992, reprinted 2006), Shakespeare’s Noise (2001), and Shylock Is Shakespeare (2006). He teaches English at the University of Rochester. JEFFREY HARRISON is the author of four full-length books of poems—most recently Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books), which was runner-up for the Poets’ Prize in 2008—as well as of The Names of Things (2006), a selection published by the Waywiser Press in the U.K. SCOTT HIGHTOWER’s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. His translations from Spanish have garnered him a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. A native of central Texas,helivesinManhattanandteachesat NYU. DARYL HINE is author of many poems and collections of poems, including In and Out, Flotsam & Jetsam, and Postscripts, and also of translations of Hesiod and of poems from the Greek Anthology. He edited Poetry for many years. ALICE HOFFMAN has published eighteen novels, two books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults, including New York Times bestsellers The River King, Blue Diary, The Probable Future , and The Ice Queen. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, and People Magazine. Her most recent novel is The Story Sisters (2009), published by Share Areheart Books. 1 9 9 R ARTHUR KIRSCH is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia. His extensive work on Auden includes Auden and Christianity and an edition of Auden’s Lectures on Shakespeare. GEORGINA KLEEGE is the author of Home for the Summer, Sight Unseen and Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller. Her current book project is titled First-Hand Knowledge: Blindness, Imagination and Art. She teaches creative writing and disability studies in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. ANNE KORKEAKIVI’s stories have appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Atlantic , and other journals, and her nonfiction in numerous periodicals in the U.S. and the U.K. She has just completed writing a novel. She is currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. PETER LASALLE is the author of a novel, Strange Sunlight, and three short story collections : The Graves of Famous Writers, Hockey Sur Glace, and Tell Borges If You See Him. His work has been selected for a number of anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In 2005 he received the Award for Distinguished Prose from the Antioch Review. CARL PHILLIPS is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the forthcoming Double Shadow (FSG, 2011) and Speak Low (FSG, 2009), a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. JAMES RICHARDSON’s most recent book, Interglacial : New...