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  • Contributors

Michael Beeman’s stories have appeared in the South Carolina Review, the Emprise Review, and the New Plains Review. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.

Ann E. Berthoff has written general and critical pieces on many subjects for this magazine since 1963, beginning with Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee from Me.”

Warner Berthoff, a longtime member of the Harvard faculty, earned the Heilman prize for excellence in book reviewing for 2009.

Jonathan Bloom, senior lecturer at the University of Paris-Dauphine, is preparing an edition of the letters and journals of V. S. Pritchett.

Stephen Bluestone’s poems in this issue are taken from a book-length manuscript in progress entitled “The Painted Clock.” His awards include the Thomas Merton Prize and the Greensboro Prize.

Bruce Bond has published eight books of poetry, including two titles with the lsu press. He holds a chair at the University of North Texas and is poetry editor for the American Literary Review.

John W. Crowley taught American literature for four decades until his recent retirement. He is perhaps best known for his work on William Dean Howells. A previous contributor, he will have a revaluation of Edith Wharton forthcoming later this year.

Scott Donaldson’s essay on being edited by Malcolm Cowley (fall 2012) is derived from a manuscript he has just completed—“The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography.” His new biography of Charlie Fenton is reviewed by John Crowley in this issue.

Charles East, an editor at the lsu Press who became the director, was a man of letters who edited the Civil War diary of Sarah Morgan, published two books of short stories, and wrote essays in criticism and reminiscence for various periodicals, especially the Sewanee Review.

Jonathan Greene has written over thirty publications. His latest collection of poems, Distillations and Siphonings (2010), includes three poems that Garrison Keller read on his Writers’ Almanac.

John B. Hench has retired as vice president for collections and programs at the American Antiquarian Society, where he helped establish the society’s program in the history of the book in American culture. He is the author of the study Books as Weapons during World War ii (Cornell University Press), which earned a prize.

Daniel Hoffman’s fourteenth book of poems, Next to Last Words, will be published by the lsu Press in April to celebrate his ninetieth birthday.

David Moolten is a physician specializing in transfusion medicine. His most recent book, Primitive Mood (2009), earned the T. S. Eliot Award from the Truman State University Press.

Phillip Parotti, a graduate of Annapolis, has a special interest in the history of warfare from classical times to the present; and he has published many stories about war.

Sanford Pinsker, a longtime contributor to this quarterly, will be reviewing more books for the SR in forthcoming issues.

George Poe, a regular contributor to this magazine, holds the class of 1961 chair of the college at the University of the South.

F. D. Reeve continues his work on poetry set to music, the latest instance of which is taken from his poetic cycle on the Zodiac, “Carving the Circle,” which was first published in the SR.

Jonathan Rose, Kenan professor of history at Drew University, is best known for his prizewinning book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.

Earl Rovit, who has retired from the City College of New York, continues to write reviews and reminiscences for this magazine. In addition to being a well-established critic, he is a novelist.

Austin Smith is a Stegner fellow at Stanford. His story “The Black Blanket” appeared in the spring 2012 issue, and he will be publishing a book of poetry entitled Almanac.

Michael Spence’s poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, and the SR. He has new work [End Page xvii] forthcoming in the Hopkins Review, the New Criterion, and elsewhere. His latest book of poetry (his third) is Crush Depth (2009).

Kathryn Starbuck has her third book of poetry, Existential Chitchat, in production. Poems from it have recently appeared in the New Republic and Poetry.

Christopher Thornton’s essays have appeared in Commonweal, the American Scholar, and the Michigan Quarterly. He...

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